History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.341.2

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183, 188) and Paṭṭakila, modern Patil (in Ujjain plates of 975 and 1023 A. D. in I. A. vol. 6 p. 51, 53, vol. 18 p. 322 grant of Bhoja in *saṁvat* 1076, I. A. 16 p. 254, E. I. vol. XI. p. 304, 310 of *saṁvat* 1176). In an inscription of the 13th century from the Poona District we have the form 'paṭṭela' (E. I. vol. VII. at p. 183). The word 'gāvuṇḍa' for a village headman in the Canarese Districts is derived from grāmakūṭa (E. I. vol. VII p. 183). Paiṭhīnasi¹⁹³ quoted by Aparārka p. 239 states that the food of a grāmakūṭa could not be partaken by a brāhmaṇa. The Gāthāsaptaśatī frequently refers to the great influence of the grāmaṇī and the love adventures of his son in the village (I. 30-31, VII. 24). The Kāmasūtra states (V. 5.5) that the young son of a grāmādhipati had certain women of the village at his beck and call.¹⁹⁴ According to the Śukranītisāra I. 193 a grāma (village) is one krośa in extent and yields a revenue of one thousand silver karṣas, while half a village is called *palli* and half of palli was *kumbha*. Hemādri in Dānakhaṇḍa (p. 288) quotes from the Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa definitions of pura, kheṭa, kharvaṭa and grāma. Yāj. II. 167 makes a distinction between grāma, kharvaṭa and nagara (town) as regards the extent of the pasture lands to be preserved round them. Baudhāyana Dh. S. II. 3.