Documenta Nepalica

Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal
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ID Word Notes Type
1766 ambalamāmula [ambala + māmula] var. amalamāmula; n. a levy (cf. M.C. Regmi 1978: 861 (on “Kot-mamuli”)) collected within a particular administrative area (ambala)? t.t.
2009 amin n. 1) a confidential agent, a trustee, a commissioner; 2) a native officer in the revenue or judicial departments of colonial India (Wilson 1955: s.v. amin, umeen). t.t.
2204 aminī [fr. A.] var. amīnī, amini; n. Rana period administrative office in the Tarai districts also functioning as courts of first instance (Adhikari 1984: 344; Kumar 1967: 164; Sever 1993: 477). t.t.
2205 aminī gosvārā var. amīnī gosvārā; n. office for keeping the paperwork for the district aminī offices. t.t.
2370 aṃśabanḍā [aṃśa +banḍā] var. aṃsavāḍo, aṃsabhāḍo; n. partition, division of property. t.t.
853 ānā [fr. S. *āṇvaka- ?] n. 1) monetary unit worth one sixteenth of a rupee with four ānās constituting one sukā, equivalent to one ganḍā; in documents usually represented by one to three diagonal dashes, sometimes as a loop with two or three jags. 2) sixteenth part of land, property etc. (cf. Parājulī et al 1995: s.v. ānā). t.t.
3057 anantacaturdaśī [S.] n. fourteenth of the bright fortnight of the month of Bhādrapada. t.t.
2761 aṅgula n. measurement of length equal to the width of an adult human finger. t.t.
2931 anna [S.] n. food; grain; crop. t.t.
7 Apīla Aḍḍā “Name of the appelate court at the capital substituted for Adalat Goswara after 1901.“ (Kumar 1967: 164 ) t.t.
1792 apsariyā [cf. S. apasāra] var. apsarīyā, apasariā, apsariā; n. rebel ? (see Pant 2002: 84, 85, 93, 94 and passim; cf. Parājulī et al 1995: s.v. apasārī). t.t.
2629 aputālī var. aputāli; also maryo aputālī / moroaputālī; n. escheatable property that falls to the state if a person dies without heirs. t.t.
2864 āratī [fr. S. ārātrika] n. 1) a ceremony performed in worshipping a deity by moving a dish with a lamp in a series of circles in front of the idol. 2) a dish holding a lamp, incense or other articles used in the ceremony of āratī. t.t.
2789 arcala n. shrub or small tree with small black eatable fruits (Antidesma acidum Retz.), grown in central and eastern Nepal for fodder (Manandhar 2002: 92). t.t.
2436 arghā [S. arghya] var. argha; n. oblation of milk, yoghurt, barley, dūbo gras and other ingredients mixed with water in a small boat-shaped spouted vessel used in Hindu rituals. t.t.
2905 ārī n. trough, tray. t.t.
2332 arjabegī n. a government officer; “under the Moghal government, this was an officer appointed to receive and present petitions. In the 1840s in Nepal, an arzabegi was attached to the Adalat (court); later we find him as the superintendent of the jail. He has also been referred to as the person who announced to a condemned man his sentence and who presided over the execution.“ (Edwards 1975: 108) t.t.
855 arjī var. arji; n. 1) request, petition, application. 2) a respectful letter to a superior authority, especially the king. t.t.
2870 āsā n. shield, boss of a shield t.t.
2217 asala jaisī n. a class of Brahmins inferior to the Upādhyāyas. According to the Mulukī Ain (MA-54 Ed. 1 115.2) the offspring born of an Upādhyāya man to a concubine unmarried Upādhyāya Brahmin girl or the one who are born of an Upādhyāya man to a ritually married Jaisī woman are considered to be True (asala) Jasisis. t.t.
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