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द्राङ्गिक (drAGgika)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Drāṅgika (IE 8-3
EI 10, 30
CII 3, 4
HD), probably, an
officer in charge of a city-station or watch-tower for collection
of customs duties. Draṅga means either ‘a town’ (Bhandarkar's
List, No. 810) or ‘a watch-station’ (Rājataraṅgiṇī, VIII. 2010).
Drāṅgika was an officer in charge of a draṅga probably mean-
ing a watch station or a station for revenue collection
similar
to Audraṇgika in the latter sense
mentioned along with the
Dhruvasthān-ādhikaraṇa or ‘the collector of the king's grain-
share’. Cf. draṅga, Draṅgapāla, etc. See CII, Vol. III, p. 169.