शतपति (zatapati)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishŚata-pati occurs in a verse of the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā^1 and
the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa^2 as an epithet of Indra, who is
described as alone the ‘lord of a hundred’ among men. To
interpret the expression as ‘lord of a hundred gods, ’ as does
the commentary on the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, is obviously
impossible. It seems clear that there is a reference to an
analogous human functionary — viz., the lord of a hundred
villages, known in the later law^3 — who was probably at once a
judicial deputy of the sovereign and a revenue collector, an
ancient magistrate and collector.
1) iv. 14, 12.
2) ii. 8, 4, 2.
3) See Foy, Die königliche Gewalt, 74.
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