Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c10.50
Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c10.50
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c10.50
Tax-paying cultivators could mortgage or sell their lands only among themselves. Persons who enjoyed revenue-free (*brahmadeyika*) lands could mortgage or sell such lands only to those who deserved or were already granted such lands. Otherwise the sellers were liable to a fine of first amercement [III. 10].
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- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit