The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.200

c22.200

The particle *cha*, occurring in the first sentence quoted above, makes it clear that the donation consisted of something in addition to 25 Dīnāras. That additional donation is also explicitly described as (a field or allotment called) Īs'varavāsaka, which was purchased with the capital supplied by the royal officers mentioned in the record. That the capital outlay for feeding 10 Bhikshus was not 23 Dīnāras is further proved beyond all doubt by another inscription from Sanchi itself, where ¹²⁷ it is expressly stated that a capital outlay of as many as 12 Dīnāras was necessary to feed one monk in the middle of the 5th century. Cf.:—