Cultural Study of Nisitha Curni

Author(s): Madhu Sen
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar

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POLITY AND ADMINISTRATION
for his reprehensible behaviour during a gotthi. He appears to be more of a judicial authority rather than an official in
the army.
The important towns and cities of the State were considerably fortified to enable the people of the adjoining towns and villages to take shelter during the hostile period. A king is observed issuing command to his subjects to leave their villages and towns and take shelter inside the adjacent fort (samasanna dugga)2 due to the aggression of a non-Aryan king. The koṭṭapala or kolavala* was responsible for the protection of the fort. He has been called by a similar name in the Jaina literature dur gadhyakşa was his another designation. The frontiers of the State or town were guarded by the officer known as dvarapala", rakṣapala® or sthānapala (thanipala or thaṇailla) who kept a strict watch over the borders of the State. He was called maryadadhuryal under the Pratihāra kings. It appears that each kingdom had a restricted area called janmerall or jaṇusīmā. Beyond this the ordinary citizens were not allowed to travel. The royal guards, however, were allowed to move beyond this area till. the actual borders to defend the frontiers. They were, however, not allowed to cross the border of the State, i. e. rayamera12 or rayasima 13 and enter the territory of the other
4. NC. 3, p. 57.
5. Jaina Pustaka Prasasti Sangraha, p. 10.
6. Altekar, op. cit, p. 146.
7. NC. 4, p. 16.
8. Ibid.
1. दोसावण्णस्स गोट्ठियस्स दंडपरिच्छेयकारी कडुगो भण्णति - NC. 2, p. 144; also Brh. Vr. 2, p. 229.
2. NC. 4, p. 229.
3. नगरं रक्खति जो सो नगररक्खियो कोट्टपाल – NG. 2, p. 234.
also जणरायसीमा -- NC. 3, p. 200.
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9. NC. 3, pp. 199-200.
10. EI. 1, pp. 154-60.
11. सीमा मेरा मज्जाता, तं जणमेरं रायमेरं च दुविहं पि अतिक्कमति - NC. 3, p. 201;
12. Ibid.
13. रायसी माइक्कमे इमे दोसा – NC. 3, p.202.