Arthashastra

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शूद्र कर्षक प्रायं कुल शत अवरं पञ्च कुल शत परं ग्रामं क्रोशद् विक्रोश सीमानम् अन्योन्य आरक्षं निवेशयेत् ॥

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.

english translation

zUdra karSaka prAyaM kula zata avaraM paJca kula zata paraM grAmaM krozad vikroza sImAnam anyonya ArakSaM nivezayet ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript