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BHUMICCHIDRANYĀYA—(1)
pidhāna-nyaya and Bhumicchidra-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 Concepts in Ancient India
=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.
 
BHUMICCHIDRA VIDHĀNA-(1) Yadavapra-
kaśa's Vaijayanti gives the meaning of bhumi-
cchidra as a 'land unfit for cultivation'.³
 
(2) The whole term means 'arrangement regard-
ing land unfit for cultivation'. Kautilya discus-
ses these arrangements in A' II. 2.
 
(3) Cf. Bhumicchidranyaya.
 
BHUMI-SANDHI-Treaty for the gain of land
(bhumi). When in a treaty both parties agree
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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