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iv) Land Offering on large scale - Further an idea of getting one sixth of total land of the country came before the workers of Bhūdāna Yajna so that all landless persons of country might get lands. There also came a second idea of getting one sixth of the land of a particular province by working there honestly and laboriously, so that an example might have been set before the people of other provinces. With that intension, workers of Bhūdāna Yajña tried their best to achieve one sixth of the total land of Bihar i.e. 32 Lacs acres of land of Bihar, but only 26 Lacs acres of land they could get as Dāna. Though that total land offered in Bihar was 9 Lacs acres lesser than expectation, it was wonderful that 3 Lacs people offered their lands there. So that step was named as “Land Offering on large scale."
v) Land Revolution - The removal of individual right on land was thought to be the success of Land-Revolution. Individual right on land was considered to be finished in all villages, so that village itself might be the owner of the total land of village. That was the idea of converting the whole village in one family (Grāma Parivāra). When Vinoba Bhave was passing through Karaputa village of Orisa, village offering revolution (Grāma Dāna Āndolana) was enhancing fastly. Moreover 500 villages were offered in Orisa upto 1955, among which 400 villages were offered in the Karaput district only. In this way the Bhūdāna Yajña reached on its 5th stage named-Land - Revolution (Bhūmi-Krānti).
Again the analysis of Bhūdāna Yajña according to Vinoba Bhave may be seen in the following way -
“Bhūmidāna is for the persons who are poor and landless, who know and like agriculture and want to do farming but they have no alternative except ploughing and labouring in other's land, Bhüdāna is a means to decay of mastership by removal of individual right on land. Like air and water, land is also under the ownership of the Great Master God and all have equal rights to work with their own hands. With this idea in his heart the donator, in order to finish his ownership on land, will offer his land so that land of village will be under the possession of the village itself. Thus village ownership of land (Bhūmi Kā Svāmikarana) will be established. The aim and object
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