Local Government in Ancient India c9.115
Local Government in Ancient India c9.115
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Some of the Bhattiprolu inscriptions which, according to Bühler, are 'not later than 200 B.C.', record gifts made by *goṭhīs* or committees (*Ep. Ind.*, vol. II, p. 325). Thus no. 3 mentions the names of the members of the *goṭhī*. No. 6 mentions the gift of a casket (*majūsa*), the crystal-box (*ṣamuga*) and the stone-box (*ṣamuga*) by 'the members of the Ṣāgaṭhi guild or town (*nigama*) chief among whom is the king who was Khubiraka, the chief of the Sīha (*Siṁha*) *goṭhī*'. The members of the guild are named in no. 8.