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# Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.2744

Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.2744

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### [c6.2744](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.2744)

\*khajjana\*, \*khajjana\*, \*khajjāna\*, \*khajjanaka\* (IE 8-8; EI 33), same as Marāṭhī and Koṅkaṇī \*khājan\*; an area near the sea shore, on which a thin layer of sand accumulates after the ebbtide coming through inlets; a rice field created out of such an area near a hillock by erecting embankments on the three other sides; a field created by reclaiming a river bed; cultivable land created from the bed of a river which carries the flood-water from the sea; a salty marsh or meadow; a rice field created near the bed of a nullah on the sea shore by putting embankments. See \*Ep. Ind.\*, Vol. XXXIII, pp. 53-54. It is sometimes called \*pukkoli-khajjana\*, \*pukkoli\* probably meaning a similar kind of land.

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