The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.137

c22.137

Let us first find out the price of paddy which was the staple corn in the south. Two inscriptions⁹⁵ on the central shrine of the Rājarājeśvara temple at Tanjore, one on the southern and the other on the northern wall, enumerate a number of villages, that were assigned by king Rājarāja before the 29th year of his regin, *i. e.*, before 1014 A.D. In the case of each village the precise acreage under cultivation and the land tax due therefrom have been stated with meticulous accuracy. The taxation of about 29 villages is given in paddy and is found to be 100 Kalams of paddy by the Āḍavallāṇ measure per veli. In the case of 5 villages, however, the amount of tax is given in cash, and is seen to be 10 Kaḷanjus per veli. Since the villages belonged to the same division, it is fair to conclude that 10 Kaḷanjus of gold were equal to 100 Kalams of paddy by the Āḍavallāṇ measure. The price of paddy would thus be 10 Kalams per Kaḷanju towards the end of the 10th century A.D.