Balutedara, Balutēdāra, Balutedāra: 2 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

balutēdāra (बलुतेदार) [or बलुता, balutā].—or tyā m (balutēṃ &c.) A public servant of a village entitled to balutēṃ. There are twelve distinct from the regular Governmentofficers pāṭīla, kuḷakaraṇī &c.; viz. sutāra, lōhāra, mahāra, māṅga (These four constitute pahilī or thōralī kāsa or vaḷa the first division. Of three of them each is entitled to cāra pācundē, twenty bundles of Holcus or the thrashed corn, and the mahāra to āṭha pācundē); kumbhāra, cāmhāra, parīṭa, nhāvī constitute dusarī or madhalī kāsa or vaḷa, and are entitled, each, to tīna pācundē; bhaṭa, mulāṇā, gurava, kōḷī form tisarī or dhākaṭī kāsa or vaḷa, and have, each, dōna pācundē. Likewise there are twelve alutē or supernumerary public claimants, viz. tēlī, tāmbōḷī, sāḷī, māḷī, jaṅgama, kaḷavānta, ḍavaṛyā, ṭhākara, ghaḍaśī, tarāḷa, sōnāra, caugulā. Of these the allowance of corn is not settled. The learner must be prepared to meet with other enumerations of the balutēdāra (e. g. pāṭīla, kuḷa- karaṇī, caudharī, pōtadāra, dēśapāṇḍyā, nhāvī, parīṭa, gurava, sutāra, kumbhāra, vēsakara, jōśī; also sutāra, lōhāra, cāmhāra, kumbhāra as constituting the first-class and claiming the largest division of balutēṃ; next nhāvī, parīṭa, kōḷī, gurava as constituting the middle class and claiming a subdivision of balutēṃ; lastly, bhaṭa, mulāṇā, sōnāra, māṅga; and, in the Konkan̤, yet another list); and with other accounts of the assignments of corn; for this and many similar matters, originally determined diversely, have undergone the usual influence of time, place, and ignorance. Of the balutēdāra in the Indapur pergunnah the list and description stands thus:--First class, sutāra, lōhāra, cāmhāra, mahāra; Second, parīṭa, kumbhāra, nhāvī, māṅga; Third, sōnāra, mulāṇā, gurava, jōśī, kōḷī, rāmōśī; in all fourteen, but in no one village are the whole fourteen to be found or traced. In the Panḍharpur districts the order is:--pahilī or thōralī vaḷa (1st class); mahāra, sutāra, lōhāra, cāmhāra, dusarī or madhalī vaḷa (2nd class); parīṭa, kumbhāra, nhāvī, māṅga, tisarī or dhākaṭī vaḷa (3rd class); kuḷakaraṇī, jōśī, gurava, pōtadāra; twelve balutē and of alutē there are eighteen. According to Grant Duff, the balatēdāra are sutāra, lōhāra, cāmhāra, māṅga, kumbhāra, nhāvī, parīṭa, gurava, jōśī, bhāṭa, mulāṇā; and the alutē are sōnāra, jaṅgama, śimpī, kōḷī, tarāḷa or vēsakara, māḷī, ḍavaṛyāgōsāvī, ghaḍaśī, rāmōśī, tēlī, tāmbōḷī, gōndhaḷī. In many villages of Northern Dakhan̤ the mahāra receives the balutēṃ of the first, second, and third classes; and, consequently, besides the mahāra, there are but nine balutēdāra. The following are the only alutēdāra or nārū now to be found;--sōnāra, māṅga, śimpī, bhaṭa gōndhaḷī, kōra- gū, kōtavāla, tarāḷa, but of the alutēdāra & balutē- dāra there is much confused intermixture, the alutēdāra of one district being the balutēdāra of another, and vice versâ. (The word kāsa used above, in pahilī kāsa, madhyama kāsa, tisarī kāsa requires explanation. It means Udder; and, as the balutēdāra are, in the phraseology of endearment or fondling, termed vāsarēṃ (calves), their allotments or divisions are figured by successive bodies of calves drawing at the kāsa or under of the gāṃva under the figure of a gāya or cow.)

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

balutēdāra (बलुतेदार) [or balutā, or बलुता].—

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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