History of the Khaljis, A.D. 1290–1320 c15.s1.6

c15.s1.6

⁴ *Khūt* and *balahar* appear to be vernacular vocables which Barani so frequently uses in his Persian. From the trend of the text it appears that a *Khūt* was a sort of zamīndār or revenue collector and *balahar* was peasant, so that the latter paid revenue to the former. Barani's text has (p. 287) دریں دادن خوطاں (را) بَابَلا هران The را is given in the British Museum Ms. but not in the Bib. Ind. text. Thus a *balahar* gave the revenue to a *Khūt* who deposited it into the royal exchequer. Prof. Hodivala's interpretation (pp. 277-78) is quite convincing when he says that *Khūt* appears a decapitated form of Sanskrit Gramkūta or village headman. Barani also uses it in the same sense.