History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.321

v4.c62.321

Kauṭilya II. 1 says that in the kingdom groups of villages should be set up with a chief town or fort in each, a group of ten villages being called Saṅgrahaṇa, of two hundred villages being called Khārvaṭika, of 400 villages being called Droṇamukha, and in the midst of 800 villages¹⁸² there is the Sthānīya.