Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c56.14

c56.14

See IA., X, 215 and EI., XV, p. 136 on *Mahattaras*. In the Damodarpur plate (EI., XV, 36) the *Mahattara and other Ashta-kula-adhikaraṇas* deal with settlement of land and report to the Governor. Cp. this with *ibid.*, p. 133, where the same function is performed by the President (*Sreshṭhin*), Kulika, Registrar, *etc.*, along with the Government District Officer. The Mahattara is there reporting from some interior town.