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गौरीवराटिका (gaurIvarATikA)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
gaurī-varāṭikā, ‘virgin-money’. Gaurī means ‘a virgin’
and varāṭikā is used primarily in the sense of varāṭa or varāṭaka,
‘a cowrie-shell’, and secondarily in that of ‘money’. In the
records of Mithilā, gaurī-varāṭikā means ‘money to be paid
to the master of a slave girl of marriageable age by the master
of her bridegroom’. See JNSI, Vol. XVI, pp. 264 ff.