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describes his Jain father's service in Bengal as a revenue-collector for
the diwan, himself a pious Jain. "He had five hundred men serving under
him as potdars (read: fotdār] (revenue-collectors), who were all lucky
men, busy amas sing great wealth.".
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[4. tammi ya kale bārasavariso dukkālo uvatthi samjatāito ya samuddatire.
ācchettā puņaravi pādaliputte militā annassa uddeso anṇassa khamdam evam samghāļiteņhim tehim ekkārasa amgāņi samghātitāņi diţthivādo natthi
nepālavattani bhayavam bhaddabāhus sāmi acchati codda sa puvvi
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the Trishashtigalaka Purusha Charita by Hemachandra. Edited by Hermann
Jacobi, Ph. D., Published for the Bibliotheca Indica. Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press and published by the Asiatic Society. 1891.))
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