The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.s2.15
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c18.s2.15
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c18.s2.15
The income from fines formed in our age, as in modern period, one of the items of the state income. Fines could hardly have formed any appreciable fraction of the total income of the state, and a considerable portion of them must have been consumed by the expense of the judiciary. When villages were alienated, the right to receive the fines imposed upon the delinquents was also usually transferred to the donees. The usual expression in this connection is sadaṇḍa.