Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.s2.10
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.s2.10
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c4.s2.10
The village, on the other hand, was clearly an administrative unit. After all, what was a kingdom if not a definite collection of villages?⁸ Then, as even now, the bulk of the people lived in villages. The greatness of a kingdom is represented by the number of villages it included.⁹