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POLITY AND ADMINISTRATION
difference existed between them."'I It is also noteworthy to remember that “the old designation (like vişaya and deśa) continued to be applied to, albeit the units very much diminished in size.»2
The visayas were further divided in towns and villages. Various terms like pura", puri*, nagara", nagaris, pattaņa?, donamuhas, nigama etc. are mentioned to denote a town according to its geographical, political or economic situation. Though the term pura is itself a suffix, yet a practice of using both the suffixes, the pura and nagara together, can be seen in the text. In the usages like Anandapuranagarao, Andhapuranagara 11, Daśapuranagara 12, Kampillapuranagara 18, Vārattapuranagara14 etc., the pura is being taken as part of the word and the nagara is added as a suffix. Pattanas were the towns having a flourishing trade. Anandapura is mentioned as a famous thalapatļaņa. 15 Donamuhas were the towns where trade by land and waterways were carried out. Besides, there were towns exclusively inhabited by the merchants or trade-guilds, and these were
1. Virji, op. cit., p. 236. 2. Ibid., p. 235. 3. NC. 2, pp. 357, 269, 503. 4. NC. 2, pp. 95; NC. 3, p. 295. 5. NC. 2, p. 382; NC. 3, p. 346; NC, 1, p. 105. 6. NO. 3, p. 419; NC. 2, p. 417. 7. NC. 2, p. 382; NC. 3, p. 346. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10, NO. 3, p. 268. 11. NC. 3, p. 269. 12. NC. 3, p. 441. 13. NC. 2, p. 21. 14. NC. 4, p. 158. 15. FATEO gftant, aqEoj struiageid-NC. 2, p. 328; also NC. 3, p. 346;
Bih. Vr. 2, pp. 342-43. 16. Got out all fã TÉ -NC. 2, p. 328.
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