The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.s2.48

c18.s2.48

The first part of the expression *sakāśṭhatṛṇakūpataḍā-gopetaḥ*, which occurs in many of our records¹⁰⁶ transfers to the donees the right to utilise grass, fuel etc., growing on the waste lands included in the boundaries of the village concerned. It must be, however, noted that the Smriti writers lay down that a certain portion of the village waste lands should be set apart as pasturage¹⁰⁷ and most of the Deccan villages still possess them. In our period, too, the same must have been the case. The ownership of the pasture lands was vested in the village Mahājanas.