In the macro-economic and local governance structure of the Mahajanapadas period, the official known as the Gramabhojaka or Gramamani functioned primarily as the:

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In the Pali literature, the Gramabhojaka was the institutional village headman. The position was often hereditary. He operated as the vital fiscal link between the peasantry and the state, extracting agricultural revenues for the monarch, maintaining peace, and exercising judicial powers to settle petty crimes.

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