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Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal
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2580 akarnanāmā [P.] n. in legal procedure a report assembling all evidences brought forth in a case. t.t.
2171 akhāḍā [fr. S. akṣavāṭa-] var. akhaḍā. n. lit. "wrestling ground", military station of ascetics; organised group of fighting ascetics. akhāḍās are found e.g. in the traditions of the Śaiva Daśanāmī, the Vaiṣṇava Vairāgī and the Sikh affiliated Udāsī (Clark 2012). t.t.
1920 akhtiyārī var. akhatīyārī, akhatyārī, akhtīārī; n. 1) person conferred authority, typically over the management of a guṭhi, caretaker. 2) state of possessing authority, caretakership. t.t.
2631 akṣara [S.] n. letter of the alphabet; syllable. t.t.
2348 akṣatā / achetā / acheto [fr. S. akṣata] var. akṣetā; n. unbroken rice grains used in rituals, prepared from husked rice (cāmala). t.t.
3029 akṣayatṛtīyā [S.] n. Annual spring festival on the third day of the bright fortnight of Vaiśākha. t.t.
2502 aktiyāra/akhtiyāra [lw. H. fr. A. ikhtiyār] var. akhatīyāra; n. authority, power, right, rule; privilege; inheritance. t.t.
2926 alakhā var. alaṣā; n. a long tunic-like shirt without collar worn by ascetics. t.t.
2117 alipatra n. deed of relinquishment of title (see RRS 11.4, p. 51). t.t.
3019 āmada var. āmoda; n. income t.t.
2202 amāla [Fr. A.] n. a village level revenue collection office with semi-judicial functions (cp. Adhikari 1984: 344). In the Mulukī Ain, adālatas, ṭhānās and amālas were the central institutions for judicial administration (see, for example, MA-KM 1854 1.5, 19 and 21). t.t.
2937 amaladāra n. a non-commissioned army officer. t.t.
2938 amaladarī var. amaldārī; n. a particular kind of gun used by the amaladāras? t.t.
1842 amalamāmula see ambalamāmula t.t.
846 amāli / amālī [fr. A.] var. amāli, ambāli, amvalī, aṃvalī; also amālidāra; n. a revenue official or functionary of a regional administrative unit (Pant and Pierce 1989: 93, M.R. Pant 2002: 131). According to Krauskopff and Meyer he had only "minor judicial powers" (Krauskopff and Meyer 2000: 183). Kumar further notes that he was a "subordinate civil functionary in the tehsil" (Kumar 1967: 164). His office was called amala (cf. Adhikari 1984: 344, M.C. Regmi 1978: 853). t.t.
847 amālidāra var. amālīdāra; see amāli (Pant and Pierce 1989: 93). t.t.
2323 amānata [fr. A.] n. 1) managment or revenue collection by a government office, or by an agency empowered by the government (M.C. Regmi 1978: 853; cf.: M.C. Regmi 1978: 225 ; M.C. Regmi 1978: 161 ; Adhikari 1984: 344; Michael 2012: 129). 2) a system under which revenue was collected, or sources of revenue exploited, on government account by salaried employees (M.C. Regmi 1988: 265). t.t.
2717 āmānta n. a scheme of reckoning time in lunar months according to which months end on the new-moon day (āmāvasya) so that waxing fortnights precede waxning ones; normally used in Nepāla Samvat (NS) era dates. t.t.
3043 ambā var. amban, n. (Chinese: 駐劄大臣; pinyin: ángbāng) title of a high Chinese official. resident or ambassador in Tibet, especially during the Qing dynasty. t.t.
849 ambala var. aṃbala, amavala, amala, ammala; n. 1) territory, administrative unit, district. 2) office, position, term of office, honour, respect (Turner 1931: s.v. amal); "territory in Gorkhali official discourse; land occupied by force, land from which the state has acquired right to collect revenue; generally conveys the same meaning as the term amal" (Michael 2012: 129). t.t.
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