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महादण्डनायक (mahAdaNDanAyaka)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Mahādaṇḍanāyaka (IE 8-2, 8-3
EI 30
CII 3, 4
BL.
HD)
commander of forces
also called Khādya(kū*) ṭapākika, Sān-
dhivigrahika, Kumārāmātya, etc., additionally
one of the desig-
nations sometimes included in the pañca-mahāśabda
cf. the case
of Maitraka Dhruvasena I (Ep. Ind., Vol. XX, p. 7
Ind.
Ant., Vol. IV, p. 105). The five mahāśabdas applied to Dhruva-
sena are Mahādaṇḍanāyaka, Mahāsāmanta, Mahāpratīhāra, Mahā-
kārtākṛtika and Mahārāja. See Daṇḍanāyaka, Sarvadaṇḍa-
nāyaka, Mahāsarvadaṇḍanāyaka, Daṇḍapati.