The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.49

c22.49

There is evidence to show that if a village or land was owned by several cosharers, no new owner could be introduced except with the consent of the whole body. The Sivapur inscription of Mahās'ivagupta, belonging to c. 800 A.D., assigns ¼ share of 5 villages to 15 Brahmanas. The grant was hereditary, but on the condition that the grantees and their descendants continued to be men of learning and high moral character. The record expressly adds that if a sharer died heirless, or was ignorant, or immoral, his share was to be assigned to some other relative by the remaining coshares, and not by the king.(39)