Indian Epigraphy c16.s4.68

c16.s4.68

In an inscription⁴ of 812-13 A.D., the village of Vaṭapadraka (modern Baroda in Gujarat) is stated to have been situated in Aṅkottaka-caturaśīti, i.e. Aṅkottaka-84. There are similar other instances of the number 84 being attached to the name of a territorial unit in medieval inscriptions, while Corāsī or Caurāsī (Sanskrit *caturaśīti*., ‘eightyfour’) happens to be the name of several territorial units in various parts of India. Thus while Kārpaṭavāñjya-84 and Ratnapura-84 are known from inscriptions,⁵ Caurāsī is the name of a Pargana in the Mirzapur District of U.P. and Corāsī is a subdivision of the Surat District of Gujarat. There is likewise a village called Caurāsī, probably the headquarters of a Pargana originally, in the Puri District of Orissa. A group of villages in the Ajmer District of Rajasthan is called Bhinaikī Caurāsī (i.e. Bhinai-84). There are similarly territorial units with names associated with numbers other than 84.