Indian Epigraphy c16.s5.25

c16.s5.25

Among early records from North India, the Khoh plates⁴ (575 A.D.) of Hastin record the grant of land together with udraṅga and uparikara but without the entry of the Cāṭa and Bhaṭa as well as without cora which no doubt means fines from thieves. The Śāśvatakoṣa explains udraṅga as uddhāra and udgrantha which seem to mean the share of the produce payable to the king.⁵ Uparikara appears to be the same as Marāṭhī upari, ‘a tax levied on cultivators having no proprietory right on the soil’ Wilson’s *Glossary*).