216 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
“uses only the decimal division when speaking of the Civil 
‘‘ Administration: ‘ Let him appoint a lord of 10 towns, a lord 
“* of 20 towns, a lord of 100 towns and a lord of 1,000 towns’ 
Stee aaah s, therefore, there is nothing in Manu which can 
“be construed into the remotest allusion to Chaurasis we 
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‘and Ray Tal. Both are ascribed to the Chandels.’”’ Of the 
Rajput origin of the Barhon in the Jhansi District there can be 
no question.! 
32. Finally there is no doubt about the Rajput origin of 
the term Atharahgarh. I have already noticed in paras. 8 to 10 
above the earliest reference to the use of 18 as indicating the 
number of parts properly composing a whole Kingdom—the 18 
Mandalas of the Chedi Kingdom of Tripuri, and the 18 “ forts 
AS 
system ot Punchayats in the Provinces of d Ou y Mr 
C. A. Phel ** A word should be added about Garhwaro Panche 
‘in Jhan hwaro is app To a and refers a 
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group of twelve or sometimes fifty-four villages which in Maharatta 
** times shared one large Appellate Panchayat. Important disputes were 
** settled by this Tribunal which had recourse to ordeals, lots and other 
**unorthodox methods when matters were not made clear by oral 
ay evidence There now survive very few traces of this primitive institu- 
ion 
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The Collector of Jhansi in a letter to the Local Government also 
oan HE ra 
Collector of Jhansi to the Secretary to the Government of United 
vinces), — 
