State and Government in Ancient India c23.s5.28

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c23.s5.28

Apart from the Sāmantas, royal relations like the queens, crown princes, and junior princes also received feudal grants, known as Rājakīyabhoga under the Gāhaḍavālas and Grāsa-bhūmi under the Chāhamānas. Usually they had no full proprietary rights over these assignments. The extent of these assignments varied with the resources of the kingdom. We find the Chāhamāna prince Kīrtipāla enjoying twelve villages as his fief.¹ Princes Lakhaṇapāla and Abhayapāla were together enjoying only one village in 1177 A. D.²

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