Indian Epigraphy c16.s4.89

c16.s4.89

In this connection it may be pointed out that sometimes numbers mentioned in connection with the name of a tract do not refer to the villages but groups of them, although a distinction is made between the two classes. Thus an inscription¹ of 1173 A.D. from Udaypur in the former Gwalior State speaks of a village in Bhṛṅgārikā-catuḥṣaṣṭi-pathaka which formed a part of Bhailasvāmi-mahādvāsaka-maṇḍala. It appears that the *Pathaka* or subdistrict called Bhṛṅgārikā-64 consisted of sixtyfour villages while the *Maṇḍala* or district called ‘Bhailasvāmin great-12’ consisted of 12 such sub-districts. The speciality of the second case has been indicated in the record by prefixing the word *mahā* to the number (cf. *Mahāgrāma*).