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प्रयाणदण्ड (prayANadaNDa)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
prayāṇa-daṇḍa (IE 8-5
EI 25, 26), cf. rājasevakānāṃ vasati-
daṇḍa-prayāṇa-daṇḍau na staḥ
refers to the obligation of the
villagers to provide free conveyance and carriage of loads, etc.,
when royal officers passed through their village. Prayāṇa thus
seems to mean ‘passage, transit’, and daṇḍa ‘levy’
cf. rūḍhabhāroḍi.