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| ID | Word | Notes | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2201 | ṭhānā / thānā | t.t. | |
| 2523 | ṭhānedāra / thānedāra | [lw. H.] n. police officer in charge of a ṭhānā. According to Turner the term was used in British India but not in Nepal where this officer is usually called ṭhānā ko subidār or subedār (Turner 1931: s.v. ṭhānedār) | t.t. |
| 2743 | thānī | n. 1) a local man of standing, village headman. 2) a deity specific to a locality. | t.t. |
| 2650 | thapāḥju | [New.] n. the most senior of the elders (āju) of a monastery. In bāhāḥs, the most senior āju is always a Vajrācārya, who is also called casalāḥju, a derivative of Cakreśvara āju. This, however, does not apply to a bāhāḥ that does not have a Vajrācārya member. | t.t. |
| 2347 | thara | n. 1) group of persons bearing the same surname; clan; sub-caste. 2) "a functionary junior to the in-charge of a revenue office" (Karmacharya 2001: 94). 3) synononym of tharaghara (cf. M.R. Pant 2002: 136; cf. tharaghara). | t.t. |
| 1938 | tharaghara | n. 1) originally referred to the leaders of the thirty-six clans (thara) of which the nobility of Gorkha consisted (Riccardi 1977: 47 n. 5). 2) member of the six clans (cha thara) of Pā̃ḍe, Pantha, Aryjāla, Khanāla, Rānā, and Bohorā, who supposedly assisted Dravya Shah in the conquest of Gorkha (Edwards 1975: 108). They were heriditary dignitaries, in the 11th of Rāma Śāha's edicts charged with the duty of protecting the throne and lawfulness (Riccardi 1977: 49). These six clans form the top level of the 36 clans of the Gorkhali nobility (ibid.: 62 n. 1). Persons from these six tharas often oversaw land measurements. 3) | t.t. |
| 1845 | tharī | var. thari; | t.t. |
| 1959 | tharthoka | n. representatives of six families, viz. Pā̃ḍe, Pantha, Arjyāl, Khanāl, Ranā and Boharā, and Basnyāt. | t.t. |
| 1797 | thārū | var. thāru; n. generic term for a large group of people living in the Terai (see Bista 1996: 130-138); classified in the MA as "Enslavable Alcohol-Drinkers" (Höfer 2004: 9). | t.t. |
| 2125 | ṭheka | var. thega, theka, ṭhek; n. 1) regular payment (cf. NBŚ: "sālindā bujhāune garieko tiro vā dastura"); 2) regular payment in either goods or cash in leasing (cf. NBŚ: "…3. ṭhekkāmā bujhāunuparne rakama vā mālasāmāna"); 3) "generic term used to denote various categories of contractual systems for the collection of taxes" (Michael 2012: 135; cf. M.C. Regmi 1988: 270). | t.t. |
| 2669 | ṭhekā | n. wooden cylindric vessel with a tapered neck and a lid, typically used for storing yoghurt or buttermilk. | t.t. |
| 791 | ṭhekabandi | var. ṭhekavaṃdi ṭhekabandī; n. 1) system under which a lump-sum as an annual tax was assessed for a district, village, or other unit (Regmi 1999: 137), 2) contractual settlement with mukhiyās or other local functionaries for the collection of homestead and other revenues in the central hill region (Regmi 1978: 163; Michael 2012: 135; cf. Regmi 1988: 270). | t.t. |
| 2476 | ṭhekadāra | var. ṭhekaḍāra, ṭhekādār, ṭhikidār, ṭhekdār; n. contractor. 1) person who holds a ṭheka for the collection of taxes (M.C. Regmi 1988: 270). 2) farmer who rents his land. | t.t. |
| 794 | ṭhekathiti | var. ṭhekkathiti, n. 1) settlement with the village community represented by local headmen (mukhiyā, in eastern Nepal the subbā) for the collection of taxes on rice-lands and homesteads in the villages of the far eastern hill region and the Baisī region. (M.C. Regmi 1978: 163; cf. M.C. Regmi 1988: 270, M.C. Regmi 1978b: 867); 2) system of land tax collection on contractual basis. | t.t. |
| 2379 | ṭhekkā | n. 1) contract, lease; 2) service done for a fixed period of time; 3) things that are to be given to an office under fixed conditions; cp. ṭheka. | t.t. |
| 2147 | thiti | [fr. S. sthiti] var. sthiti, thīti; n. 1) custom, tradition. 2) arrangement, order, regulation. See also rītithiti. | t.t. |
| 2142 | thiti bandeja | [thiti + bandeja]; var. sthiti bandej; n. sanctioning of customs and traditions; according to Höfer 2004: 151 (who writes ° bāndeja) the term refers to both, "to codification as a whole and to singular decrees bearing the royal seal". A thiti bandeja can also give legal sanction to a revenue settlement (ibid.: 152 n. 1). Besides lālamoharas often copper plate were issued. | t.t. |
| 2330 | thoṅ-līṅ-pim-mā-ko-kāṅ-vāṅ-syān | title conferred by the Chinese emperors upon the Rāṇās, Jaṅga Bahādura being the first such honoree. According to Landon, the title means: t'ung ling ("commander-in-chief") ping ma (lit. "foot and horse", i.e. "of the whole army") kuo ("truly") kan ("valient") wang ("prince") hsien ["title of"], which he translates as "Truly valient prince, Commander-in-chief of the army" (Landon 1928: 247). | t.t. |
| 2136 | thuma | [?] var. thuṃ; n. an administrative subdivision comprising a number of villages in the hills (M.R. Pant 2002: 136). According to M.C. Regmi 2002: 303 the chief of a thuma was a umarāu who "was required to supply fighting men, and perform other functions prescribed by the government from time to time." A subdivision of a tahasila (Kumar 1967: 168). | t.t. |
| 2466 | tihāra | var. tihuvāra, tihavāra; also dipāvalī, divālī or yamapañcaka; n. festival celebrated over the five days from the 13th of the dark fortnight to the 2nd of the bright fortnight of Kārttika. | t.t. |
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