| Notes | [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). |
