The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.153
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c22.153
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c22.153
Oil is thus seen to be as costly as sweet ghee. The same conclusion is driven home to us by another record, ¹⁰⁵ which records an investment of 30 Kaḷanjus for purchasing 90 nāris of oil. The rate of interest is not stated, but the investment is sufficiently high to indicate that oil was dearer than ghee of indifferent quality. At present oil is relatively very much cheaper than ghee. The dearness in our period may suggest that oilseeds were not then so common as they are now. The price of oil in our period would be about 2½ seers a rupee.