Local Government in Ancient India c9.112

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c9.112

But besides these instances of gifts of individual merchant-princes, heads of families or aldermen and foremen of villages and guilds, we have also instances of collective donations made by villages, towns, and guilds. Thus the Bharhut Buddhist coping-stone inscription (Cunningham, *Stūpa of Bharhut*, no. 16, p. 131) records a gift of the town (*nigama*) of Karaha-

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