Local Government in Ancient India c13.154

c13.154

Regarding the royal revenue, the items were of course fixed by the king's officers on the basis of a land survey executed in co-operation with the assembly, which had a land survey committee, as we have already seen. Such a land survey seems to have been carried out under Rājarāja, as will appear from some of his inscriptions, from which we may gather that the survey was in theory correct to the minutest fraction of a square inch. Graduated rods of sixteen and thirteen spans for the measurement of land are also referred to. No. 5, (*S. I. I.*, vol. II, part I) refers to land being measured by *marakkāl* (a *rājakeśari*, the standard royal measure). Lands measured we re-entered in terms of *kuli* or *vēli*.