Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c10.6

c10.6

The rural collective life was promoted by organising every 10 villages under a common administrative centre called *Saṅgrahaṇa*; every 200 villages under *Khārvaṭika*; every 400 villages under a *Droṇamukha*; till the culmination was reached in a union of 800 villages called *Mahāgrāma* with its administrative centre called a *Sthānīya*, a centre of culture, trade, business, and means of livelihood, where the villagers of the entire locality would meet and cultivate a corporate life [*Ib.*].