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अष्टभोगतेजःस्वाम्य (aSTabhogatejaHsvAmya)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
aṣṭabhoga-tejaḥsvāmya (IA 8), unbridled ownership
endowed with all the rights associated with the enjoyment of
property
translated as ‘with the eight rights of full possession’
though aṣṭa probably means ‘all’ and not merely ‘eight’ (cf.
aṣṭādaśa, etc.)
cf. aṣṭabhoga-tejaḥsvāmyaṃ ca krayeṇ = ādāya (EI
23), ‘having secured the aṣṭabhoga-tejaḥsvāmya rights by pur-
chase’
(IA 19), translated as ‘the proprietorship of all the
glory of the aṣṭa-bhoga’, and aṣṭa-bhoga explained as ‘the
deposits of buried treasure (nidhi-nikṣepa), water, stones, the
akṣīṇī, that which may accrue, that which has been made
property, that which may be made property, and augmen-
tation’. But there is probably no justification for taking
nidhi-nikṣepa as a single unit.
Cf. aṣṭabhoga-tejassvāmya-daṇḍaśulka-yukta (Ind. Ant.,
Vol. XIX, p. 247, text line 102), mentioned along with nidhi-
nikṣepa-pāṣāṇ-ārām-ādi-catuṣ-prakāra-bīravaṇa-pārikh-āya-sahita. The
separate mention of these two groups shows that aṣṭa-bhoga
vaguely indicated all kinds of proprietary rights.