Crossword-Solution: BIGAS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Taking advantage of his absence, a certain Inda-bibi (or Inda-bigas), a mountain-chief from the fastnesses of Luristan, raised a revolt in Elam, and succeeded in seating himself upon the throne.

The natives measure and sell rice (Tagálog, _bigas_) and paddy (Tagálog, _palay_) by the caban and its fractions; the caban dry measure is as follows, viz:-- 4 Apatans = 1 Chupa; 8 Chupas = 1 Ganta; 25 Gantas = 1 Caban, the equivalent of which in English measure is thus, viz:-- 1 Atapan = .16875 of a pint.

There were also Zemindars, who appear to have held the property of the soil, but were allowed to retain only a small portion (15 to 20 bigas) of good land, fit for transplanted rice, and for this they were held bound to pay three rupees a-year, and to appear in the field as a militia, when called upon by the Subah.

The following was the rate at the time when I procured the account; but the chief of the village, (Mokuddum,) for every hundred bigas that pay rent, is allowed five free of that charge.

Tammaritu marched to Babylonia; while there, his officer Inda-bigas made himself master of Susa and drove Tammaritu to the coast whence he fled to Assur-bani-pal.