Indian Epigraphy c16.s4.77

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¹ Suc. Sāt. L. Dec., p. 400. For this question, see J. F. Fleet in JRAS, 1912; also V. S. Agrawala in Sir Jadunath Sarkar Presentation Volume, II, pp. 16 ff. Our original interpretation of grāma as a unit of revenue assessment (elaborated by Agrawala as ‘one plough-measure of land assessed at one silver Kārṣāpaṇa’) cannot be true in respect of many of the cases involving small numbers specified in this section. The number of such units of assessment or income, in coins, of a tract of land may of course have been confused with the number of villages in it in cases which speak of very big numbers.