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pidhāna-nyaya and
pidhāna-nyāya and Bhūmicchidra-vidhāna-nyāya.
(2) Literally "The maxim of the fallow land'.
Hence the term means 'the principle of the rent-
free enjoyment of land by one who brings it
under cultivation for the first time.¹
Political
under cultivation for the first time. D. C
=Bhumicchidra-
(3) When a donated land was exempted from
any tax it became a convention to state the land
to have been given according to the 'maxim of
the fallow land' even where the land was not
necessarily a fallow land nor cultivated for the
first time.
first time. Cf. akincitpragṛhyatayā bhumicchidranyāyena...pratipādi.
tam (Nidhanpur C. P. Grant of Bhāskaravarman. lines 43-54.
Vide Kāmarupaś' āsanāvalī, p. 17).
BH
k
cchidra as a 'land unfit for cultivation'.
bhumau paś'ubhyo vivitāni prayacchet' (The King should make
provision for grazing grounds for the animals in the uncultivable
lands).
(2) The whole term means 'arrangement regard-
ing land unfit for cultivation'. Kau
ses these arrangements in AŚ' II. 2.
(3) Cf. Bh
BH
(bh
to stop hostility with a view to gaining some
land for both of them, it is called a Bhūmi-
sandhi.
1. D. C. Sircar, Indian Epigraphical Glossary, p. 58.
2. Cf. akincitpragrhyataya bhumicchidranyayena...pratipādi.
tam (Nidhanpur C. P. Grant of Bhāskaravarman. lines 43-54.
Vide Kamarupaś' āsanāvali, p. 17).
3. bhumicchidram krsyayogya. Kautilya begins his chapter
on Bhumicchidravidhāna (AŚ II. 2) with the words: (akrsyayam
bhumau pas'ubhyo vivitāni prayacchet' (The King should make
provision for grazing grounds for the animals in the uncultivable
lands).
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sandhi.