| YouTube Channel

नगरश्रेष्ठिन् (nagarazreSThin)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Nagara-śreṣṭhin (IE 8-3
EI 15, 21
BL
HD), according
to some, the city banker or guild president of the town
but
actually, the chairman of a board of administration like the
Pañcāyat
same as the Nagarseṭh who was the chairman of the
board called Cauthiyā in late medieval Rajasthan. See Ep. Ind.,
Vol. XV, p. 115
Proc. IHC, Ahmadabad, 1954, pp. 52 ff. See
Pura-śreṣṭhin, Pura-pradhāna, Śeṭṭi, etc.