The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.s1.73

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these villages in gold rather than in corn. In some cases the payment of the tax may have been entirely in cash in the Deccan, as was sometimes the case in some of the Chola villages; the Begumra plates of Kṛṣṇa II⁴¹ refer to one such village, which seems to have been paying its entire taxes in drammas. It is, however, very likely that in the vast majority of cases the land tax in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa dominions was paid in kind, as was the case in the Ganga and Chola dominions.