The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.21

c12.21

A very important personality for the king—the increase of king's wealth depended obviously in no small degree upon his work—was the rajjuka or the rajjugâhaka amacca, lit., "the rope-holding minister," that is, as appears from the description contained in the Kurudhamma Jâtaka, the “surveyor,” the cadastral officer of the king.¹ As we saw in the account of the king’s revenue, the lands of the tax-paying subjects were measured, either to determine the amount of rent payable by them to the king or to determine from the extent of land the average produce to be brought to the king’s storeroom. “Whether the minister himself