A Study in the Economic Condition of Ancient India c8.4

c8.4

After taking all these facts into consideration, we can read the numbers of estates (*grāmas*) as the numbers of *sāmanta-kulas* (families) and *vice versa*. It has already been calculated roughly that ancient India consisted of 7,000,000 *grāmas* (estates), and that each *grāma* represented from fifteen to twenty persons. Multiplying 7,000,000 by fifteen and twenty we would arrive at a total population for ancient India of between 105,000,000 and 140,000,000.