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# Matsyapurana 85.2

Matsyapurāṇa 85.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [85.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.85.2)

uttamo daśabhirbhārair madhyamaḥ pañcabhirmataḥ  
tribhirbhāraiḥ kaniṣṭhaḥ syāt tadardhenālpavittavān //

> The mount of 50 maunds (10 bhâras) of molasses is the first best, of 25 maunds (5 bhâras) the second best, and of 15 maunds (3 bhâras) the last best. The poor may make it of 7½ maunds even.—2.  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.85.p2) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.85.2) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (5)

- [Dānasāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.danasagara.40.2) — Ballālasena, Sanskrit
- [Caturvargacintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.caturvargacintamani.27.p5) — Hemādri, Sanskrit
- [Ṣoḍaśamahādānavidhi (Hemādri)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.dana.mahadana.sodasamahadanavidhi-hemadri.27.p5) — Hemādri, Sanskrit
- [Dānakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.hemadri.danakhanda.32.p1) — Hemādri, Sanskrit
- [Dānakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.dana.danakalpataru.7.p55) — Lakṣmīdhara, Sanskrit

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