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8(3) The territory of a state.
(4) The country as against the city (i.e., Pura or
Nagara or Durga). K. P. Jayaswal, Hindu Polity, p. 2
 
(3) The territory of a state.
 
(4) The country as against the city (i.e., Pura or
Nagara or Durga).³
 
0.
(5) In AŚ. II. 1, Kauțṭilya discusses colonisation

of the countryside (Janapada).
 

(6) In AS. VI. 1, he discusses the marks of a

good rural area (Janapada sampat) and in AS.
Ś.
VIII. 1, he discusses the calamities of the rural

area (Janapada Vyasana).
 

(7) According to K. Political Concepts in Ancient India
 
(7) According to K. P. Jayaswal the term had

been used in the more ancient sources in the sense

of a 'political community' (HP. p. 31) or a

'political nation' (HP. p. 43). But these mean-

ings are controversial.
 

(8) Village as opposed to the town (Pura).³
 
We have the term Janapadavadhū (Meghadūta, I. 16) in the sense of rural women.
(9) One of the seven constituent elements (sapt-

ānṅga or saptāprakrṛti) of the state.
 

(10) In the Brāhmaṇas this term denotes both

'people' as opposed to the king and the land'
or land'realm
or '.
 
realm'. Vedic Index, Vol. I, p. 273.
 
JANAPADA DHARMA --(1) The term occurs in

Manu Samṁ. VIII. 41.
 

(2) =Deśadharma as it occurs in Manu Sam. I.
ṁ. I.
118.
 
=
 

(3) The term plainly means the 'customs of the

province concerned', which should be taken
 
2. K. P. Jayaswal, Hindu Polity, p. 230.
 
3. We have the term Janapadavadhu (Meghaduta, I. 16) in
the sense of rural women.
 
4. Vedic Index, Vol. I, p. 273.
5. Altekar, SGAI, p. 149.
 
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