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of ten smaller villages. He keeps record of the

lands under cultivation, crops grown and other

such details of the whole area under his jurisdic-

tion (AS' III. 35).
 

(3) The Gopa under the Naāgarika works in the

city. He is in charge of a maximum of forty
smaller families and a minimum of ten larger

smaller families and a minimum of ten larger
families. He keeps record of sex, caste, profes-

sion and other details of the members of the

families allotted to him. (AS' II. 36).

 
GOVIKARTA--(1)=Govikartana.
 

(2) One of the eleven Ratnis (q.v.).
 

(3) The term means either 'the officer in charge

of the royal herd of cattle," or 'the master of
forests cum the officer in charge of the
 
huntsmen or '.5
 
the master of
forests cum the officer in charge of the
huntsmen'. Altekar, SGAI, p. 162. Jayaswal, Hindu Polity, p. 196.
 
GRĀMA--(1) In RṚgveda, the term relates to a group

of related families or a sect and only at a later

time it came to mean a regular village or settle-
ment.Ⓡ
 
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ment. Basham, The Wonder that was India, P. 35.
(2) At all times the village was the unit of gov-

ernment. There was no uniformity of the

size of a village. A grāma could contain even

as many as 1,000 families in the upper limit."
Basham, Ibid, p. 104.
 
GRĀMANĪ --(1) The village headman or a military

captain. It is one of the few government offi-
cers mentioned in the R
cers mentioned in the Ṛgveda. (Vide Altekar,

SGAI, p. 311).
 
4. Altekar, SGAI, p. 162.
 
5. Jayaswal, Hindu Polity, p. 196.
 
6. Basham, The Wonder that was India, P. 35.
7. Basham, Ibid, p. 104.
 
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