Dear Luther,

there are synonyms of purapati such as nagarādhikṛta, nagarādhipa, nagarādhipati, nagarādhyakṣa, etc., used also by Kalhaṇa. Most probably there will be more.

nagara-pati , according to Kane’s important list of functionaries and officers, would have been a „city prefect“ (HDhŚ Vol. 3 1946 (1993): 989).

Determining the meaning(s) of purapati in its various expressions requires to compare the respective function(s) in the respective contexts they occur.

> Completed in 1459, it speaks of the citizens of Yoginīpura (yoginīpurapaura) in verse 381

It is actually verse 384. This one should however be assigned to Pseudo-Jonarāja (for transmissional and philological reasons, cp. n. 344 on p. 272 of my translation). From the background of a different authorship it would have been composed considerably later than 1459.

 

Best,

Walter