Arthashastra

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तेषु च एतावच् चातुर् वार्ण्यम्, एतावन्तः कर्षक गो रक्षक वैदेहक कारु कर्म कर दासाश् च, एतावच् च द्वि पद चतुष् पदम्, इदं च एषु हिरण्यल्विष्टि शुल्क दण्डं समुत्तिष्ठति इति ॥

Also having numbered the houses as taxpaying or non-taxpaying, he shall not only register the total number of the inhabitants of all the four castes in each village, but also keep an account of the exact number of cultivators, cow-herds, merchants, artizans, labourers, slaves, and biped and quadruped animals, fixing at the same time the amount of gold, free labour, toll, and fines that can be collected from it (each house).

english translation

teSu ca etAvac cAtur vArNyam, etAvantaH karSaka go rakSaka vaidehaka kAru karma kara dAsAz ca, etAvac ca dvi pada catuS padam, idaM ca eSu hiraNyalviSTi zulka daNDaM samuttiSThati iti ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript