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खज्जन (khajjana)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
khajjana, khajjaṇa, khajjāna, khajjaṇaka (IE 8-8
EI 33),
same as Marāṭhī and Koṅkaṇī khājaṇ
an area near the
sea shore, on which a thin layer of sand accumulates after
the ebbtide coming through inlets
a rice field created out of
such an area near a hillock by erecting embankments on the
three other sides
a field created by reclaiming a river bed
cultivable land created from the bed of a river which carries
the flood-water from the sea
a salty marsh or meadow
a
rice field created near the bed of a nullah on the sea shore
by putting embankments. See Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXIII, pp.
53-54. It is sometimes called pukkoli-khajjana, pukkoli probably
meaning a similar kind of land.