Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.139

c8.139

Besides land particularly fields, houses or whole villages, by which only the right of taking the taxes out of it is meant, pensions (nibandha) too are bestowed, for instance the fixed monthly or annual payments of guilds of merchants for the maintenance of a temple. The king should also do his utmost to provide everything for the corporations of learned men, to procure them maintenance and erect a building for them in his capital (Y. 2, 185—191, cf.