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महासामन्त (mahAsAmanta)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
महा—सामन्त
m.
a great vassal,
Inscr.
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Mahāsāmanta (IE 8-2, 8-3
EI 30
CII 3, 4
BL), ‘the
great chieftain’
title of a feudatory of a higher rank than the
Sāmanta
sometimes called Mahārāja, Mahāpratīhāra, Pañca-
karaṇ-oparika, Pāṭy-uparika, Purapāl-oparika, Senādibāhattara-
niyogādhiṣṭhāyaka, Mahāpradhāna, Sarvādhikārin, Mahāpasāyita,
Daṇḍanāyaka, etc., additionally. Cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. II, p. 217
Vol. IX, p. 107.
(SITI), a vassal chief, sometimes holding the position of
a minister or governor.
(IE 8-2), one of the designations sometimes included in
the pañca-mahāśabda
cf. the case of Maitraka Dhruvasena I.
(IE 8-3), sometimes a feudatory of a lower grade than
Rājan and Rājanaka.