The tax which the kings used to collect from the people in the Vedic period was called ___________.
During Rig-Vedic era, the basic unit of power lied within a patriarchal family called Kula. The head of the family was a Kulapa. A group of such families called grama, which was controlled by a village headman Gramini. The groups of the villages belonged to a clan and many clans made a community called Jana.