The Mauryan Polity c7.s6.t3.3

c7.s6.t3.3

(2) He became the owner of all the finds and treasure-troves valued 1,00,000 paṇas or above. For the less valued ones, the discoverer was entitled to one-sixth of the value. But no claim was made on such treasure-troves as a man of honesty could prove them to be his ancestral property.²