[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Rashtrakutas and their Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934) › c22.190 # The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.190 The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c22.190 - **Language:** English ### [c22.190](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.190) The first argument to support this tremendous rise in prices is based upon a comparison of the meal charges per head in the two periods. It is argued that the Sanchi inscription of Chandragupta II¹²³ shows that a capital of 23 Dīnāras was sufficient to feed 10 monks in the 5th century A.D., whereas the Ukkal inscription No. 1¹²⁴ shows that an investment of 200 Kaḷanjus was necessary to feed 12 Brahmanas in c. 1000 A.D. The capital charge per head was thus 2 3/10 Dīnāras in the Gupta period, whereas it was 16 2/3 Kaḷanjus at c. 1000 A.D. 'If we divide 16 2/3 by 2 3/10,' argues the author, 'we get the purchasing power of a Dīnāra as equal to that of 7 1/4 Kaḷanjus, or in other words, we find the prices of food stuffs rose seven and a quarter times from the 5th to the 11th century A.D.'¹²⁵ - [Previous: c22.189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.189) - [Next: c22.191](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.191) - [Up: c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.190](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c22.190) · Pramāṇa