Indian Epigraphical Glossary c7.75

c7.75

bhūmi-cchidra-nāyena or °cchidra-pidhāna-vyāyena, ‘in accordance with the principle of cultivating the land for the first time and enjoying it free of taxes as a result’. The word chidra in the first means ‘cultivation’ and chidra-pidhāna in the second ‘reclamation of uncultivable land for the first time.’ Sometimes vidhāna is wrongly used for pidhāna. See Ind. Ep., pp. 397-98.