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चौरवर्जम् (cauravarjam)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
caura-varjam (CII 3
HRS), cf. cora-varjam, coradaṇda-
varjam, cora-rājāpathyakāri-varjam
‘with immunity from the
police tax’ according to some
may really mean ‘without any
right to inflict punishment on thieves and persons committing
the crime of treason or to levy fines from them’
may also be
connected with a-bhaṭa-praveśa so as to indicate that the bhaṭas
should not enter except for catching thieves and persons
committing the crime of treason
cf. Cāṭa.
caura-varjam, also quoted as cora-varjam, cora-daṇḍa-varjam,
cora-rājāpathyakāri-varjam, etc.
according to some ‘with immu-
nity from the police tax’, while others take it to be related to
a-cāṭa-bhaṭa-praveśa and think that the policemen were prohi-
bited from entering a gift village except in connection with the
apprehension of criminals
may also mean ‘without any right
to inflict punishment of thieves, etc., or to levy fines from
thieves, etc.’ See CII, Vol. III, p. 109.