Political Concepts in Ancient India /139

Glossary
 
cost given to
 
BHARMAŅṆYAĀ--Maintenance
cost given to
woman by her husband. (AS' III. 3).

 
BHĀGA --(1) A tax in the form of a share of the
agricultural produce or any merchandise.
 

agricultural produce or any merchandise.
(2) Kautilya mentions it as one of the Aṭilya mentions it as one of the Āyamu-

khas, i.e. as a source of royal income (AS' II. 6).

(3) This term is often suffixed to other words,

e.g. Lavanṇa bhāga (King's share of the salt
produce).
 
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produce).
(4) A business partner's share as presumably in

AS' II. 35.
 

(5) In certain places identified with Bali and in

others with Kara and in yet other places with

both. (See Bali and Kara).
 

(6) A subdivision of a district or a territory.

(D. C. Sircar, Indian Epigraphy, VIII. 5).
 
a
 

(7) Often used with a numerical expression to
indicate the proportion of the produce to be

indicate the proportion of the produce to be
realised as tax.
 

Cf. dhanyānām aştamo bhaānyānām aṣṭamo bhāgaḥ şaştṣaṣṭho dvadasa
ādaśa
eva vā (Manu Samṁ. VII. 130)..
 
=
 

Cf. dhaānya saḍbhāgaṁ paṇya daśabhāgaṁ hiraṇ-

yaṁ cāsya bhagadheyamāgadheyaṁ prakalpayāmāsuḥ (AŚ.

I. 13).
 
Digitized by
 

(8) = A land tax often mentioned as Bhāgakara.
 

 
BHĀGADHUK--(1)= Bhāgadugha, one of the

Ratniīs (q.v.) being the officer in charge of

revenue collection.
 

(2) Samaharta of Arthasāhartā of Arthaśāstra (I. 6).
 
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