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⁴ Senart, Mahāvastu, I, pp. 347-8. Cf. Dialogues of the Buddha, III, pp. 84 ff. Ghoshal Agrarian System in Ancient India, pp. 25, 108. One-sixth was the traditional rate. But it varied from one-twelfth, one-tenth, one-eighth and one-sixth, in normal times, to as much as one-fourth and even one-third, in times of emergency. See for different authorities Samaddar, J.B.O.R.S. VI, pp. 101-2; N. C. Ganguly, op. cit., II, pp. 138 ff. On the information of Megasthenes that the royal share was one-fourth: J.A.O.S. 13, p. 88; For the village of Lumbini Aśoka reduced the share to one-eighth; Rummindei Pillar Inscription, Mookerji, op. cit., p. 244.