Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t5.99
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t5.99
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c4.t5.99
So far it is fairly clear. Lands were surveyed¹⁰ and divided into separate holdings (pratyayas) marked by denfinite boundaries.¹¹ These holdings were measured by the Rajjugāhaka amacca or by the Rājakammikas,¹² who also assessed the land-produce and settled the king's share. The crop could not be gathered in before the kings' portion was assessed. And finally, this kingly due in kind was collected under the supervision of the *Doṇamāpaka Mahāmattas* at the king's granary.