The Rashtrakutas and their Times c14.43

c14.43

Another difficulty in accepting the view, that the figures we have been discussing indicate the numbers of estates comprised in the divisions concerned, is the fact that sometimes the *grāma* included in a division is situated miles away from the headquarters. Thus the village of Kannaḍige granted in the Honwad inscription of Someśvara I is in Bijapur Taluka, about a hundred miles from Karhāṭaka or Karad, the capital of Karhāṭaka 4,000 in which it was situated. It must be confessed that if Karhāṭaka 4,000 meant a division of 4,000 estates situated round about Karhad, it is almost impossible to explain the existence of one of these estates nearly a hundred miles from Karhad, unless we assume that big Zemindaris existed in the Deccan of our period, about which, however, there is no evidence yet forthcoming. A *grāma* in the Karhāṭaka 4,000 can be found in Bijapur district, only if we assume that the term indicated a village and not an estate.