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UGC NET June 2020 History
Passage
The Superintendent of cattle should know about cattle looked after in return for a wage, tended with a tax and a fixed return, become useless and cast off, entered in the state herds by payment of a share, the total number of cattle in herds, cattle that are lost or have perished, and the total produce of milk and ghee. The cowherd, the buffalo-herdsman, the milker, the churner and the hunter should look after one hundred milch-cows, receiving a wage in cash; for if given a wage in milk and ghee, they might do harm to the calves. These are cattle looked after for a wage. One person should look after one hundred animals containing an equal number of aged cows, milch-cows, cows with young, cows with calf for the first time, and heifers. He should give eight varakas of ghee, one pana per animal and the hide with the mark, every year. This is tending with a tax and a fixed return. Herdsmen looking after one hundred animals divided into an equal number of cows that are diseased, that are crippled, that do not allow another person to milk them, that are difficult to milk and that kill their calves, should give a share appropriate to that class. These are cattle become useless and cast off.
How many aged cows and how many heifers is one herdsman assigned in the above passage?
ATwenty and forty respectively
BTwenty and twenty respectively ✓ Correct
CThirty and twenty respectively
DTwenty and thirty respectively
Correct answer: (B) Twenty and twenty respectively — The herdsman is assigned twenty aged cows and twenty heifers, so the answer is twenty and twenty.
Explanation
★The herdsman is assigned twenty aged cows and twenty heifers, so the answer is twenty and twenty.
★The passage describes one person looking after one hundred animals of five equal kinds.
★These are aged cows, milch-cows, cows with young, cows with calf for the first time, and heifers.
★Since the hundred animals are divided into five equal classes, each class numbers twenty.
★So there are twenty aged cows and twenty heifers.
★Thus the herdsman is assigned twenty aged cows and twenty heifers.
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