Indian Epigraphy c16.s6.76

c16.s6.76

A passage in the unsatisfactorily preserved Bhowal or India Office plate of Lakṣmaṇasena¹ seems to give the area of the gift land as 1 *Droṇa* 1 *Ādha* 28 *Gaṇḍās* minus 1 *Kāka* and therefore to mention *Gaṇḍā*, instead of *Udamāna-Unmāna* = *Udāna* as a subdivision of *Ādha*, no doubt the same as *Adhaka* or *Ādhavāpa*. It may be suggested that *Kāka* is the same as *Kākinī* and *Gaṇḍā* is no other than *Udamāna* = *Unmāna* = *Udāna*. But it is also possible that both *Gaṇḍā* and *Kāka* were smaller than *Kākinī*. The second suggestion seems to be supported by the relation between the *Gaṇḍā* and *Kāṇī* (i.e. *Kākinī*) as known in many parts of Bengal at the present time. The word *kāka* is now used in Bengal to indicate a denomination which is 1/4 of a *kaḍā* (cowrie) and 1/16 of a *gaṇḍā*.