The Rashtrakutas and their Times c14.8

c14.8

The next territorial division was a *bhukti*. The officer in charge of its administration was called a *bhogapati* or *bhogika*. Our records do not refer to him along with *Rāṣṭrapatis* and *Vishayapatis*, probably because he did neither come into direct contact with the grantees of the land grants like the *grāmakūṭa*, nor possessed considerable revenue powers like the *rāṣṭrapatis* and *vishayapatis*. The Samangad plates of Dantidurga refer to Koppārakapañcaśatabhukti, and the Konnur inscription of Amoghavarsha I mentions Majjantiya-saptati-grāma-bhukti. The Paithan plates of Govinda III show that Pratiṣṭhāna-*bhukti* contained several groups of 12 villages. It is, therefore, clear that the *bhukti* division contained about 100 to 500 villages and hamlets. It thus corresponded sometimes to the modern Taluka or Tahsil, and sometimes to the subdivision of a district under the present British administration.