Banudar

Banudar ('light-holder') was a title adopted by many post-Pemantian Pastic rulers of many Varasanian states. It also designates common type of kingship and governance in Varasan prominent from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE, in which the banudar as an official ruler governed through and over the dam and experts, while closely identifying the exercise of worldly power with Pastic causes. Other associated characteristics include an emphasis on building and maintaining public works as a measurement of achievement; the corresponding regard of civil engineering (and especially hydraulic projects) as a practiced form of enforcing Arta; and continued celebration of Pemantian rituals and symbols revolving around the theme of light, including banuda-based liturgies and the incorporation banuvastra into regalia.