The authors compute the length of the 16-span rod, a measuring instrument used in the Kanchipuram region during the late Chola period, by combining information on land boundaries from a single inscription with fieldwork and map tools. In the process, they reconstruct part of the geography of the...

This volume studies state formation, religious institutions, and the economy in southern India during the Chola period. The author uses locational and statistical methodologies to analyse the relationship between ritual and administration in a dynamic empire.