A royal epithet meaning wholly devoted to the Sun, formed like paramamaheshvara for Shiva and paramavaishnava for Vishnu. Such titles in inscriptions are among the few direct traces of royal patronage of the Saura tradition.

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• Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages →

  Sanderson's list of rulers who styled themselves paramasaura or paramadityabhakta , wholly devoted to the Sun, is short and clusters in the sixth and seventh centuries: a king of Padmakholi in Ganjam, a Maitrak…

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