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The standard citation of Pallas, P. S. (1777). In Schreber, J. C., Die Säugethiere, 3(25): 426 accesses the Pallas article.

The Pallas article graces page 426 of the third volume of the German-titled publication Die Säugethiere.

The afore-indicated title is Anglicized as "The Mammals."

The computer crashed afore I conveyed another component of my comment below.

The Pallas description dates to the year 1777 even as that publication displays the scientific name Viverra hermaphrodita.

The scientific name now is Paradoxurus hermaphroditus even as the name change is not invalidating the original description, which still is valid!

For those asking about original-published Asian-common palm-civet scientific descriptions,
Peter Simon Pallas (Fri., Sep. 22, 1741-Sun., Sep. 8, 1811) had his taxonomy published in the year 1777.

Simlipal National Park, International Organization for Standardization romanized as Śimiḷipāḷa Jātīya Udyāna, functions as national park and tiger reserve.

The afore-indicated land is in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha state, east India.

Thank you for your two croft-connected comments below in answer to my previous observations and questions.

The Wiktionary entry regarding the noun croft explains it as often arable and small land enclosed for small-scale production of food crops.

It mentions that croft as "often with a dwelling next to it" meant for renting by a crofting farmer and meriting a right to separate, fellow crofter-shared pastureland.

Would some crofters wend their way from a house somewhere else or would their board approve or disapprove building a house on that croft land?

Crofts are supervised by the Crofting Commission.Crofting is an institution restricted to counties in N, in the counties of Orkney and Shetland, Ross, Cromarty, Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland, all of which are in northern Scotland. The insitution of crofting arose in response to the infamous Highland Clearances, where big landowners drove many northern Scots to be driven from their homes and emigrate.

Crofts are supervised by the Crofting Commission.Crofting is an institution restricted to counties in N, in the counties of Orkney and Shetland, Ross, Cromarty, Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland, all of which are in northern Scotland. The insitution of crofting arose in response to the infamous Highland Clearances, where big landowners drove many northern Scots to be driven from their homes and emigrate.

Most of the Shetland farms are crofts. A croft is a small scale farm in the northern counties of Scotland which is legally protected. Crofts are not directly bought and sold but change hands at the decision of a board. It is intended to provide security to small scale farmers. crofters can trade where they like,, but most croft produce goes to the domestic market. Sales to the Scandinavian countries are not common, but they are not forbidden.

Savandurga State Forest is west of Bengaluru, Karnataka, coastal-southwest India.

Mudumalai National Park is in the Nilgiri Mountains, Tamil Nadu, south India.

Kuno National Park is in Gwalior Chambal region, Madhya Pradesh, central India.

Bharatpur wildlife sanctuary carries the additional monikers Keoladeo Ghana National Park and Keoladeo National Park.

It locates in Rajasthan, northwest India.

Online information pinpoints as Asian common-palm civet-populated parts of India such places as:
Bharatpur and Jagannathpur wildlife sanctuaries;
Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary;
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve;
Savandurga State Forest.

They suggest as sighting areas Savandurga State Forest during monsoon and winter months and Similipal Tiger Reserve for their camera traps.

For those asking about the subcontinental whereabouts of Asian common palm civets, the latter species inhabits human settlements, plantations and primary and secondary forests in northern and in southern India.