The Rashtrakutas and their Times c14.44

c14.44

The figures associated with the territorial divisions of the Deccan in our period are small, and we have seen that they can be interpreted as referring to ordinary villages comprised in the divisions concerned. But how are these figures to be interpreted with reference to Gaṅgawāḍi, Noḷambawāḍi and Banavāsi, where, as pointed out by Rice, they are too large to admit of that interpretation? It may also be confessed that we do not usually come across the inclusion of the term *grāma* after these figures, as is the case with a number of records from the Deccan, as pointed out before.