Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.151
Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c13.151
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Perhaps it was on account of the rise in the number of cultivators, pressure of the increasing population on land, and the inability of the new peasant to pay higher taxes, that the burden of land revenues was reduced from 1/4th to 1/6th of the produce.⁸ Bṛhaspati lays down that the king should take 1/6, 1/8, or 1/10th of the produce according to the nature and yield of cultivation.⁹