Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s1.50

c12.s1.50

It would thus appear that the services were highly remunerative. In addition to this, these offices carried dignity with them. Even the master of the village was a horseman and the master of ten villages held a position equal to that of the commander of one hundred troops. He also travelled on horseback followed by some attendants. The lord of hundred villages occupied a position only equal to that of a commander of a thousand soldiers, and had the privilege of travelling in a chariot drawn by a horse with ten armed attendants. Vehicles drawn by two horses were used by the head of a thousand villages, while the lord of ten thousand rode in a carriage-and-four.⁴