The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.s1.t1.1

c18.s1.t1.1

This tax has been almost universally mentioned in all the grants of our period, and the same is the case with the documents of the earlier and later centuries. This expression has so far defied the efforts of scholars to discover its meaning. It was proposed to explain the term as a tax for protecting those who have come into existence, or as a tax for spiriting away ghosts; (48) Dr. Ghosal proposes to translate it literally as 'a revenue derived from the elements and the wind,' (49) but admits that the precise meaning of the expression is uncertain.