Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s6.39

v1.c3.s6.39

The amount of interest payable is impossible to make out. In one passage of the Rigveda and Atharvaveda⁷ an eighth (śapha) and a sixteenth (kalā) are mentioned as paid, but it is quite uncertain whether interest or an instalment of the principal is meant. Presumably the interest would be paid in kind.