Gramapati, Grāmapati, Grama-pati: 4 definitions
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Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the ŚilāhārasGrāmapati (village headman) is the official title of a minister belonging of the administration of the state during, the rule of the Śilāhāra dynasty (r. 765-1215 A.D.).—The administration of the State was carried on with the help of Governors (rāṣṭrapati), Collectors (viṣayapatis) and village headmen (grāmapati). In some later records like the Dive Āgar plate of Mummuṇi, they are called sāmanta (Governor), nāyaka (the Commissioner of a division) and ṭhākura (the Collector of a district). The Governors of provinces were often military officers, who were called daṇḍādhīpati.
Some early records mention rāṣṭrapati, viṣayapati and grāmapati among the persons to whom the royal order regarding land-gifts was communicated, which shows that these officers administered the different divisions and sub-divisions of the kingdom. The grāmapati was, of course, the headman of the village like the modern Pāṭil. One record mentions Paṭṭakila in the sense of grāmapati.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical GlossaryGrāmapati.—(EI 24, 26, 29; IA 9; HD), cf. Grāmakūṭa; the headman, owner or Jāgīrdār of a village (Mitākṣarā on Yājña- valkyasmṛti, II. 281). See Grāma-svāmika, etc. Cf. Kuḍipati (EI 18), the headman of a village. Note: grāmapati is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryGrāmapati (ग्रामपति):—[=grāma-pati] [from grāma] m. the chief of a village, [Inscriptions (10thcentury). ]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Ends with: Dashagramapati.
Full-text: Dashagramapati, Grama-svamika, Gramabhartri, Gramadhipati, Rashtrapati, Vishayapati, Dandadhipati, Nayaka, Samanta, Thakura, Pati.
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