History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c32.s2.t9.46

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1. *Eight leaves of the treatise on water by sage Garga are even now preserved in the Library of Nepal Darbar. This manuscript is dated A.D. 1070 (Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Leaflet No. 7, 1953, p. 5).*
2. *One among the thirty-two karṇas or departments, according to the Lekhapaddhati, Gaekward Oriental Series No.XXI, pp.97-128 (Glossary), see also Sircar, 1966; Murari K, pp.194-95.*
3. *The Perumbāṇārruppaḍai, one of the idylls of the Paṭṭupāṭṭu refers to a large vessel, sāl for drawing water. The word sāl also stands for a unit of cultivation measured by the quantity of water irrigated by it. In the northern part of India leather buckets were used to draw water from wells and canals. This is evidenced by a Partabgarh inscription of the Gurjāra-Pratihāra period (A.D. 946). The kosavāhe is applied to as much land as could be irrigated by one kosa or leather bucket (EI. XIV. p.176).*