A History of Agriculture in India v1.c29.s3: The Different Parts of a Village

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During the Mauryan administration, an account of the different parts of a village was kept by the local officers for the purpose of assessment of taxes. They comprised cultivated plots of land, uncultivated fields, wet lands (*kedara*), gardens, vegetable gardens, fenced plots, forests, altars, temples, irrigation works, cremation-grounds, feeding-houses, *piaos* where water was supplied to travellers, places of pilgrimage, pasture ground, roads, boundary plots, threshing floors, house sites and stables of domestic animals.