Indian Epigraphy c16.s6.78

c16.s6.78

Among other land measures mentioned in early inscriptions, we may refer to the *Pādāvarta* found in certain records from Western India² and the *Timpira*, *Timpīra* or *Timpira* noticed in some epigraphs of the Orissa region.³ Nothing however is known about the exact area of the second of the two. Monier-Williams understood a *pādāvarta* as one square foot;