Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.s2.12

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.s2.12

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c4.s2.12

⁹ J., III, pp. 365-367, G. 76 "...*gāmasahassāni paripunnāni solasa;*" V, p. 258—G. 41 "*Saṭṭhi gāmasahassāni paripunnāni sabbasa.*" The figures 16,000, and 60,000 may seem to be exaggerated, but they are not improbable. Cf. Pran Nath, "Videha may certainly have contained 16,000 villages, provided village be taken in the sense of survey village or estate. *Economic Condition*, p. 51.

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