History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.305.4
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.305.4
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v4.c62.305.4
1 advises¹⁷⁸ the king to found a district of villages either on old sites or on new ones by inducing people from other countries to immigrate or by causing thickly populated parts of his own country to send its overflowing population and to see that each village consists of not less than one hundred families nor more than five hundred, is peopled mostly by śūdra cultivators, has an extent of one *krośa* or two and is capable of offering help to its neighbours.