Indian Epigraphy c11.t7.33

c11.t7.33

In cases where the plot of land or the village granted happened to have its boundaries well known to the villagers, the limits were not specifically defined, though mention was sometimes made of the fact that it went with its wellknown boundaries. In other cases, the boundaries of the gift land are properly defined. Natural land-marks generally resorted to were hillocks, brooks, trees or groves. Often boundaries were demarcated by erecting posts or pillars³ or by interring husks, charcoal, etc., in the ground.⁴ Where a large area was involved, such records as those of the Coḷa and Pāṇḍya kings of South India sometimes speak, in connection with the determination of boundaries, of a *kariṇī-bhramaṇa*. A high official, seated on a she-elephant and followed by a number of subordinates, took a ride round the gift land and the subordinates marked off the boundary and noted down the details as the procession proceeded.¹