Indian Epigraphy c16.s4.30

c16.s4.30

of Saṃkṣobha speak of a village situated in a Peṭha.¹ Sometimes a Viṣaya is mentioned as a subdivision of a Maṇḍala.² In the East Indian inscriptions of the Gupta age, a group of districts is called Bhukti³ which seems to have indicated a smaller territorial unit in South Indian records.⁴ In the early medieval records of Bengal, the subdivision of a tract in a Bhukti is called a Bhāga. Thus the Bhāga of Vikramapura was a part of Vaṅga within the Bhukti of Pundravardhana.⁵ Bengal records also mention such small territorial units as Khaṇḍala,⁶ Caturaka,⁷ Āvṛtti,⁸ etc.