The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c8.s13.12

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*Bhukti*, *rāṣṭra*, and *rājya* are the names of territorial divisions occurring in the Vākāṭaka records, but they seem to indicate the same administrative unit.³ None of them is ever mentioned as forming part of or situated within the limits of the other. They, therefore, seem to have all denoted the district units into which the kingdom had been divided, and which appear to have been differently designated in different parts of the kingdom according to local tradition. Districts were divided into smaller administrative divisions. Sometimes these were known after the chief town included in them; thus, for instance, *Pravareśvara-shaḍviṁśaka* denoted a subdivision of twenty-six villages of which Pravareśvara was the chief town.⁴ Sometimes the subdivisions of the district were simply known as its eastern or western part.⁵