Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.35

c8.35

That in general the villages were indeed secluded from outside but inside every village private property was in evidence¹, is best proved by the rules of the Smrtis about boundary disputes which must have been one of the most common grounds of litigation. Here we have the boundary (*sīmā, maryādā*) between two countries and villages as well as the boundary between to houses and fields.