Public Administration in Ancient India c20.57

c20.57

¹ Rājataranginī (Stein), Bk. V. Referring to Suyya’s engineering work, Sir Aurel Stein remarks : “It shows alike the large scale and the systematic technical basis of Suyya’s regulation. The result of the latter was a great increase of land available for cultivation, and increased protection against disastrous floods which in Kasmīr have been the main causes of famine.” Introduction, p. 98. “The facilities secured for cultivation produced a remarkable reduction in the price of rice, the cost of a Khārī being alleged to have fallen from 200 Dinnāras to 36 Dinnāras in consequence.”