State and Government in Ancient India c20.206

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c20.206

Grants of only the Gāhaḍawāla dynasty invest the donee with the proprietary right in mango and *madhūka* trees.³ It is however very doubtful whether the state ever claimed ownership in these trees growing on private lands. Probably mango and *madhūka* groves on waste lands are intended, as hinted by one record.⁴

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