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    Indian Epigraphical Glossary

    p. 20.
    aṅga-bhoga (EI 17; CITD), often associated with raṅga-

    bhoga as aṅga-raṅga-bhoga, usually explained as ‘decora-

    tions and illuminations of a deity’. That aṅga-bhoga means

    decoration of the image of a deity is clear from the fact

    that a queen is known to have received a village as an agrahāra

    for her aṅga-bhoga, i. e. as her pin-money (Bomb. Gaz., Vol. I,

    Part ii, p. 448). Sometimes the land granted for the aṅga-

    bhoga of a deity came to be known as the deity's aṅga-bhoga

    (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXIII, p. 182); cf. aṅga, same as gātra

    (IA 11).