Local Government in Ancient India c17.160

c17.160

temples built and repaired by, 261; sub-sects of, 262-6; charter granted to, 266-7, and its renewal and amendment, 267-8 Messengers, 256 Metallurgy, 282-3 Metcalfe, Sir Charles, on village communities, 2-3 Migration of guilds, 93, 120, 315 *Milinda Pañha*, 48, 67 Military arts, 83; — guilds, 87, 215, 216, 217-19; — power, important to the state, 216; — villages, 218 Milk, of ewes, 101, 104, 106, 109, 281; of cows, 104, 110 Milk-bush, planting, 226, 238, 241 Mill, J. S., 10-11 (note) Mīmāṃsakas, 160, 161 *Mīmāṃsā*, 276, 281, 282, 287 Miners, 71 Mines, 77 Mīrā Bāī, 14, 16 Misappropriation, 243-4, 251 Mismanagement, king's handling of, 245-6 *Mitākṣarā*, 15, 30, 32, 34, 134, 314 Moggallāna, 51, 197 Mogul monarchy, 15 Monarchies, ancient Eastern, 24, 113-14 (note) Monarchy, limited by democracy, 234 Monasteries (saṅghas), 31, 97, 98, 273, 302; seals of, 113-14 (note) Money and prices, 105, 106, 114 (note); — changing, 61; — chest, 113; — lenders, 88, 122, 123, 135; — lending, 39, 98, 290-1 Monks, 97-8, 118 Moral delinquencies, 69, 244 Mortgage of village lands, 290 Moss-troopers, 47 Mote-hall, 196-7 Motion (at a meeting), 190 Moṭṭupalli (Mutfili), 266, 267, 268 Muhammadan period, wrongly named, 11-12 Muhammadans, 14, 293 Municipalities: determined by agreement, 143-4; functions spiritual as well as material, 144-5; emergency powers of, 145, 303; maintenance of irrigation works a prime concern of, 147-56, 303-4; penalty of neglect, 151; finances of, held and expended in common, 250-3 (*see* Village Assemblies) Music, 68, 315 Musicians, 70, 82, 86, 210, 315 Musk, 265 Mustard, 257 Mysore, 153, 198, 261, 285, 287, 294; merchant princes of, 52 Mystic cults, 68