Dag map on Bhunaksha: the plot the map can and cannot show

Where the Jamabandi proves a Dag is held, the map answers where it lies and what hems it in. Set the mouza and the Dag on Bhunaksha and the plot lights up among its neighbours, so a Dag that is boxed in, awkwardly cut, or simply not where the seller waved becomes obvious at a glance. Taken with the Chitha, a bare Dag number becomes a spot on the ground.

The Assam limit that matters most is the share. A Dag drawn cleanly on Bhunaksha can still be held by several co-pattadars in undivided fractions, and the map cannot show that: it draws the whole Dag as one shape, silent on who owns which part, because on the ground no part is marked off. So a map that looks decisive can sit over a plot no single seller can convey alone, and the shares have to be read from the Jamabandi and a partition, never from the map.

The second limit is the survey behind the lines. Bhunaksha inherits old survey drawings rather than a fresh measurement, so an on-screen edge guides you rather than fixing the boundary, and the drawn Dag ought to tally with the Chitha area before anyone talks price. A tidy-looking Dag still earns a walk; one with doubtful access or neighbours earns the Lot Mandal and, if it matters, a tape. Between the map, the record and a visit, an Assam Dag can be placed; its shares, and its exact edge, are read elsewhere.

Reaching the shape is quick; reading the shares elsewhere and confirming the edge makes it dependable.

On Bhunaksha

Use the map to place the Dag; use the Jamabandi, Chitha and the ground for shares, area and boundary.

Four map problems mislead Assam buyers who read the screen as the whole answer.

The map's job in an Assam purchase is to expose the spatial surprises the record hides: the Dag smaller than described, the one boxed in with no access, the one lying in a different corner of the mouza than the seller implied. Catching these on screen, and reconciling the Dag with the Chitha area, is far cheaper than discovering the mismatch after possession. Its limits are the share, the survey and the single question it answers. The map draws the whole Dag without showing who owns which fraction, its lines place the plot without measuring it, and it is silent on title, which the Jamabandi and the deed carry. Between the map, the Chitha read for area, the Jamabandi read for the shares, and a walk with the Lot Mandal, an Assam Dag can be placed with confidence; from the screen alone it cannot.