koṭṭa-rājan (5230)

koṭṭa-rājan
Entry 5230, Page 194, Col. 1

(kowwarAjan, kowwa-rAjan)
koṭṭa-rājan¦ or °rāja, lit. fort-ruler; precise mg. not clear; sometimes clearly an independent potentate (tho perhaps a minor one, cf. Mvy 3677 °rājā = Tib. khams kyi rgyal po, king of a realm, region, or rgyal phran, petty ruler); so, °rāja iva mantrigaṇaparivṛtaḥ Divy 126.4; 148.15; 182.9; Av i.108.7; sarvakoṭṭarājānāṃ cātur- dvīpakānāṃ ca sattvānāṃ Dbh 81.17; mānitāś ca bhavi- ṣyāmo 'navadyāś ca sarvakoṭṭarājabhiḥ (so read with several mss. for Lefm. °koṭa°), and we shall be honored and not contemned by all k° (surely foreign princes) LV 137.3; viṃśati ca sahasra paryantakāḥ koṭṭarājās tathā… LV 94.16 (vs), here they approach Śuddhodana sub- missively, possibly they may be vassals of his, but it seems more likely that they are foreign princes; but in other cases they seem clearly to be part of the king's own retinue or at least direct dependents, apparently officers; so in LV 118.10 (Śuddhodana gives orders to the people of his city) saṃnipātyantāṃ sarvakoṭṭarājānaḥ, ekībhavantu śreṣṭhi-gṛhapaty-amātya-dauvārika-pāriṣa- dyāḥ; Mv i.231.15 rājā aśītihi koṭṭarājasahasrehi sār- dhaṃ anyāye ca janatāye; 234.16 rājñā ca arcimena aśītihi ca koṭṭarājāna-sahasrehi (one cpd. word!); Divy 61.16 Śaṅkho 'pi rājā aśītikoṭṭarājasahasraparivāro; KP 84.8 (kumāraṃ) sarvaśreṣṭhinaigamajānapatayaḥ (read °padāḥ) koṭṭarājānaś ca namasyanti; Sukh 68.1 (amātyān stryāgārāñ śreṣṭhino) gṛhapatīn koṭṭarājāṃś ca paryeṣayed. It is, however, perhaps possible to take the word in all these latter cases as meaning vassal prince. The context gives no clue to the mg. in SP 433.4; Suv 153.9.

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