Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s12.1
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s12.1
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c9.s12.1
We do not much know about the purchasing power of money or the prices of ordinary commodities in those days. We are told that a partridge could be bought for one *kāhāvana*¹¹³ and a cow for fifty coins;¹¹⁴ the price of a blanket varied from eighteen *rūpakas* to a hundred thousand *rūpakas*.¹¹⁵