Following up Ken’s and Matthew’s suggestion, here are some sources on guthis in Nepal < goṣṭḥī in Licchavi inscriptions:

Bernhard Kölver and Hemraj Śakya, Documents from the Rudravarna-Mahävihära, Pätan. 1. Sales and Mortgages (1985), esp. disc. on pp. 18–21.
U. N. Sinha, Development of Panchayats in Nepal (Patna, 1973, chapter IV.
Mary Slusser in Nepal Maṇḍala (1982).
John K. Locke, Buddhist Monasteries of Nepal (Kathmandu: Sahayogi Press, 1985), esp. pp. 10, 14, and passim.
Phanindra Ratna Vajracharya, "Role of Guthi in Newar Buddhist Culture” (1998 conference paper summary):
http://www.aioiyama.net/lrc/papers/cbhnm-ppr-6.htm 

Best,

Tim 

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From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Reply-To: "mkapstei@UCHICAGO.EDU" <mkapstei@UCHICAGO.EDU>
Date: Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 1:14 PM
To: Kenneth Zysk <zysk@hum.ku.dk>, Herman Tull <hermantull@gmail.com>, INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] goṣṭhī

You may wish to look into the surviving, vestigial manifestation, in the form of the guṭhī of Newar society in Kathmandu. There is a Wikipedia article on the subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthi

(though it's misspelled there with a dental instead of retroflex consonant). But I imagine that the literature on Newar sociology and anthropology with have more - perhaps some of the others on the list can help with bibliography in that area.


Matthew


Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago