Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "پنچایتی راج" in Urdu language version.
… these popular courts are first mentioned by Yajnavalkya and then by Narada, Brishaspati, Somadeva and Sukra. These writers covered a period of about a thousand years, c. 100 to 1950 A.D.، and they could not have mechanically referred to the popular courts if they were not actually functioning …