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2365 pūrva tarphakā kamyāṃḍiṅ janarala var. purva tarphakā kamyāṃḍīṅga janarala; n. eastern commanding general; fourth in the Rāṇā hierarchy and third in the Rāṇā roll of succession. t.t.
1902 pustakakhānā var. postakakhānā; also pustakakoṭhā; n. archive of books and manuscripts at the royal palace in Kathmandu; "It was the Government archives where old manuscripts and books were preserved. It was probably the same Pustak Kotha which was referred to as the Darbar Library by some later scholars, such as Bhagwanlal Indraji and Hara Prasad Sastri. One Pandit and a number of Tahluwas were in-charge-of it." (Adhikari 1984: 92). t.t.
2458 pyāja khāni n. lit. "[a fee] in order to consume onion"; a fee to be paid by a plaintiff to the soldiers or bailiffs sent from the government office in order to arrest the defendant upon plantiff's request. According to the Mulukī Ain (MA-KM 1854 41.6-8), a plaintiff is required to pay the soldiers or bailiffs who are deployed to arrest the defendant, a fee of 2 ānās (in cash or in form of raw food (sidhā). The context of the Mulukī Ain suggests that this fee is paid to the soldiers or bailiffs to cover for food expenses when they are sent on duty to arrest the defendant of a legal dispute upon the plaintiff's request. t.t.
1077 rahata-bahata var. rahatā-bahatā; rahata (var. rahate): properties left behind by refugees, migrants, or people enslaved after failing to pay taxes or fines, bahata: properties brought by refugees from other places (Dabaral 1988: 134); bahata: "unclaimed property" (Michael 2012: 129). t.t.
2431 rāī var. rāi; n. 1) ethnonym, "collective term for a larger number of different Kiranti groups living west of the Limbus in the eastern hills" (Whelpton 2005: 264), also Khambu (Schlemmer 2010: 43); 2) derived from the title "rāya" given by the Sens of Makwanpur to their Kiranti ministers (Schlemmer 2010: 48), title for the village headmen in Kiranti communities (M.C. Regmi 1978: 229 ; cf. M.C. Regmi 1978: 864); 3) a position at the subbā's court in Pallo Kirāta, appointed by and ranking below the subbā (Sagant 2008: 439; Caplan 2000: 27). t.t.
2612 raibandī n. a system of redistribution of rice-land among local tenants in proportion to the size of their families (see M.C. Regmi 1978: 113-114). t.t.
2068 raikara n. state-owned, taxable land. t.t.
2511 rairakama [from rakama] var. rairakam; n. revenue collection. See also rakamakalama (Parājulī et al. 1995: s.v.). t.t.
2455 raitāna n. a group of ryots (raitī) or tenants (cf. Kṛṣṇaprasāda Parājulī et al. 2010: 1085). t.t.
2389 rāiṭara [fr. E.] var. rāīṭara; n. administrative officer higher than the bahidāra, but lower than the mukhiyā. t.t.
2302 raitī [fr. A. raiyata] n. 1) people living within the boundary of any country; 2) landholder (M.C. Regmi 1978: 864); tenant, ryot (Adhikari 1984: 355); 3) subjects or tenants under the jurisdiction of a Limbu subbā, who has granted them land and collects taxes from them (cf. Sagant 2008: 439). t.t.
2456 rāja aṅka n. generic term for taxes levied on occasions of royal rituals and others that went directly to the royal palace, including cumāvana, goḍadhuvā, godāna, gādīmubārakha, and phattemubāraka (M.R. Pant 2002: 135; M.C. Regmi 1970 (No. 9): 225; M.C. Regmi 1978: 864). t.t.
2974 rajabandhakī var. rajavaṃdakī; adj. .(land, property, etc.) mortgaged by the state or a king. t.t.
2873 rājadaivajña [S.] n. royal astrologuer, title found in the Malla period. t.t.
2093 rājaguru [S.] n. 1) a preceptor (guru) to a member of the royal family. 2) preceptor to the king (baḍā guruju). t.t.
2748 rājaguṭhī var. rājaguṭha; n. a guṭhī established by the king or royal family. The Mulukī Ain of 1854 (§ 1.5) defines it as a guthi set up by a reigning king or queen of Gorkhā following the performance of a saṃkalpa. Definition of rājaguṭhī, however, changed over time. With the system of amānata instituted, the guṭhīs managed by different governmental associations became rājaguṭhīs. The Guṭhī Saṃsthāna Ain of VS 2021 defines it as a guṭhī belonging to or managed by the government. After VS 2033, all the guṭhīs under the jurisdiction of the Guṭhī Saṃsthāna became known as rājaguṭhīs (cf. Tandan 1995: 34-35). t.t.
2203 rājakhata n. a heinous crime like the killing of a Brahmin (cf. MA-54 67.5) or incest (cf. MA-54 141.23, 25), maybe considered as a crime against or punishable by the king. t.t.
2095 rājapurohita [S.] n. domestic priest serving the royal family. In case of the Śāhas the Arjyāla family held the post of the kings' purohita from the early Śāha period until a branch of the Pāṇḍe family took over this post after the Rāṇās came to power (Whelpton 1991: 201). t.t.
2221 rājapūta var. rajaputa, rajapūta, rājaputa; n. a member of the royal dynasty and high class Kṣatriyas such as Ṭhakurīs. Since the Mulukī Ain has not specified who falls under the category of the Rājapūta-class, the membership might have been defined on the basis of customary practices (the Mulukī Ain does not include the Cord-wearing Kṣatriyas in the Rajapūta class). t.t.
2718 rajasthala [fr. S. rājasthala] n. place where the royal palace is located. t.t.
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