The Rashtrakutas and their Times c22.205

c22.205

This Sanchi inscription is no doubt later by about 40 years than the Sanchi inscription of Chandragupta II, but it cannot be argued that the prices had soared higher in the interval. At the time of the earlier inscription, Sanchi was the centre of a big military campaign, at the time of the later one there was peace in the locality, though there were wars going on elsewhere in the empire. So there is nothing to support the view, that the capital outlay disclosed by the later record at Sanchi, represents an abnormal figure. The capital outlay for feeding a monk guest in the 5th century was thus 12 Dīnāras and not 2 3/10 Dīnāras as argued in the book under discussion.