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Book 2 Chapter I Paragraph 2

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 2 - The Duties of Government Superintendents / Chapter I · Verse Paragraph 2

arthasastraarthashastrakautilyachanakyabook-2

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Villages consisting each of not less than a hundred families and of not more than five-hundred families of agricultural people of súdra caste, with boundaries extending as far as a krósa (2250 yds.) or two, and capable of protecting each other shall be formed. Boundaries shall be denoted by a river, a mountain, forests, bulbous plants (grishti), caves, artificial buildings (sétubandha), or by trees such as sálmali (silk cotton tree), samí (Acacia Suma), and kshíravriksha (milky trees).