The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c10.s3.13

v1.c10.s3.13

Most of the transactions in our period were carried on by barter. Government revenue was usually received in kind and the village officers were paid in grain. A village accountant used to receive about 80 maunds of rice as his annual salary. The carpenter got only about 60 maunds, and the manual labourer about 24 maunds. The latter wage works out at about 3 seers of rice per day. It is therefore clear that the poorer classes could live much more comfortably in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa period than they can do now.¹