The Rashtrakutas and their Times c14.12

c14.12

The next territorial unit was the village. Sometimes small hamlets contiguous to a big village were amalgamated with it for administrative purposes, though they otherwise retained their individual corporate character. Villages were, however, very jealous of their distinctive existence; when king Nandi-varman wanted to amalgamate Kumāramangala and Vennatturakotta villages into one and name the new group as Udayachandramangala, the change had to be ratified by the villages concerned (8).