endowed with all the rights associated with the enjoyment of
property; translated as ‘with the eight rights of full possession’
though aṣṭa probably means ‘all’ and not merely ‘eight’ (cf.
aṣṭādaśa, etc.); cf. aṣṭabhoga-tejaḥsvāmyaṃ ca krayeṇ = ādāya (EI
23), ‘having secured the aṣṭabhoga-tejaḥsvāmya rights by pur-
chase’; (IA 19), translated as ‘the proprietorship of all the
glory of the aṣṭa-bhoga’, and aṣṭa-bhoga explained as ‘the
deposits of buried treasure (nidhi-nikṣepa), water, stones, the
akṣīṇī, that which may accrue, that which has been made
property, that which may be made property, and augmen-
tation’. But there is probably no justification for taking
nidhi-nikṣepa as a single unit.
Cf. aṣṭabhoga-tejassvāmya-daṇḍaśulka-yukta (Ind. Ant.,
Vol. XIX, p. 247, text line 102), mentioned along with nidhi-
nikṣepa-pāṣāṇ-ārām-ādi-catuṣ-prakāra-bīravaṇa-pārikh-āya-sahita. The
separate mention of these two groups shows that aṣṭa-bhoga
vaguely indicated all kinds of proprietary rights.