The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.s1.45

c18.s1.45

A record from Honawad in Dharwar district, dated 1054 A.D., (23) refers to an allotment of ordinary dry land to a temple by king Somes'vara ' at the payment of half a paṇa as the payment for a mattar.' The rate referred to here must be obviously of taxation and not of the price of the land in question. The record, however, does not mention whether the paṇa mentioned was intended to be a gold, or silver, or copper coin. If we assume it to be a gold paṇa, weighing 80 raktikas or about a 3/4 tola, the rate of government taxation per mattar, which seems to have been equal to about 4 or 5 acres as shown above, was about 3/8 tola of gold or about 6 tolas of silver. But, it is possible that the paṇa may have been intended to be a silver or even a copper one; for Somes'vara may have decided to charge only a nominal quit-rent on the land he had given to a temple for his spiritual benefit.