The Rashtrakutas and their Times c16.s2.1

c16.s2.1

Districts or Vishayas were divided into several sub-divisions known as Bhuktis comprising of about 100 to 500 villages. (18) The officers over these divisions, which roughly corresponded sometimes to modern sub-divisions of the district, and sometimes to the Talukas, were known as Bhogikas or Bhogapatis. These officers did not usually possess the feudatory status but were generally commoners; Devaṇayya, for instance, who was administering Belvola 300 and was a favourite of Amoghavarsha I, was only a commoner. We sometimes find even these officers possessing feudatory titles, (19) but these cases are exceptional and rare. These officers were appointed directly by the central government as shown already.