s. f. (M.), ) (lit. the clenched fist.) The payment made to a land owner for permission to sink a well, or, on the banks of rivers to bring his land under cultivation;—jhúṛí baṇd, s. m. Is a tenant who cultivates after paying a royalty to the land owner, who marks out the plot given by tying down the bushes and grass in knots—hence the name jhuṛíbaṇd. Tenants of this description generally cultivate after an agreement with the landowner for a term of years.