The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.2

c18.2

An enquiry will be made in this chapter into the various sources of revenue of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa empire and the way in which they were utilised. Our principal sources of information in this connection are the statements made in the copper-plate grants about the immunities of the village alienated in favour of Brahmanas and temples. This information can be compared with the rules of the contemporary Smriti writers and statements in the records of other contemporary dynasties. Accounts of the Muslim traders are also, to some extent, useful.