Local Government in Ancient India c9.110.2

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the gift of Devabhāga, wife of the śeṭh of Kaṃdaḍigrāma (423); the gift of the śeṭh Nāgila (470); gift of the śeṭh Budhapālita, native of Pāḍukulikā (Pāṇḍukulikā) (576); gift of Nāgā, wife of the Kaṃdaḍigāmīya śeṭh (no. 140, *Ep. Ind.*, vol. II, p. 372); of Kaniyasi, the mother of the śeṭh (ibid., no. 167, p. 374); of Kujara (Kuñjara), brother of the śeṭh (ibid., no. 170, p. 375); of Nāgapiya, the śeṭh of Achāvaḍa and of his son Saṃgha (ibid., no. 201, p. 378). The inscription no. 190 in Cunningham, *Bhilsa Topes* (p. 264) records the gift of Ānaṃda, the son of Vāsiṭhi (Vāsiṣṭhī), the foreman of the artisans (*āvesanin*) of Rājā Siri-Sātakaṇi. Some of the Kānheri Buddhist cave inscriptions record gifts of artisans and merchants. No. 986 in Lüders’s List mentions the gift of a cistern (*pāniyaka*) by a goldsmith, Samidata of Kalyāṇa. No. 987 mentions the building of a *caitya* by the merchants (*vāṇijaka*) of which the overseers included a merchant (*negama*) named Apareṇuka, while the labourers included the stone-cutters (*sela-vaḍhakin*), the *nāyakamisas*, the *kaḍhicakas*, the *mahākaṭakas* and the polisher (*miṭhika*) Khadaraki. No. 995 mentions the gift of a cistern (*poḍhī*) of the merchant (*negama*) Samika from Sopāraga (*Śūrpāraka*). No. 998 mentions the gift of a cave (*leṇa*), a water-cistern (*pāṇiyapoḍhī*), benches for sitting on (*āsaṇapeḍhikā*), a chair (? *pidha*) and a walk (*cakama*) by the merchant (*negama*), Dhama. No.