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The term samanta, meaning a feudatory from the sixth century AD, originally meant a
Answer: C
It originally meant neighbour.
Samanta first meant simply one who lives nearby. From about the sixth century it came to mean a defeated ruler left in possession of his land as a vassal, and so a feudatory - the shift itself marking the growth of the samanta system.
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