Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.3596

c6.3596

*māsa* (EI 21, 25, 30, 33; CII 4), according to the *Kṛtyakalpataru* (*Vyavahāra-kāṇḍa*, ed. K.V. Rangaswami Aiyangar, p. 125), a gold coin as opposed to silver *māṣaka*; name of a weight; name of a coin; 5 *ratis* in weight; sometimes regarded as 10 *ratis* in weight and as equal to ¼ of a *śāna*. See *JNSI*, Vol. XVI, p. 41. It was sometimes regarded as 1/20 of a *paṇa* of 100 *ratis* (*ibid.*, Vol. XV, p. 143). Cf. *māṣaka*, *ādya-māsa*.