NEW DELHI, Aug. 28—Senator Charles H. Percy said to day that current United States military aid to Pakistan was “peanuts” and expressed dis may that “exaggeration” of this aid had contributed to the deterioration of relations be tween the United States and India.

He said the Indian press had created the impression of massive assistance that simply was not true. “Because it is so miniscule and doesn't amount to anything, I would prefer to cut if off entirely,” he said.

The Illinois Republican, who spoke at a news conference at the American Embassy here, has toured East Pakistani refugee camps in India during a three‐week vacation with his family on the subcontinent. He is traveling in a private capacity and not as an official guest of either India or Pakistan. To morrow he and his family leave for a visit to Pakistan.

Senator Percy said that to obtain the proper perspective for viewing the situation it was necessary to remember the $9‐billion in economic assistance that Washington had given to India, compared with the $3.6‐million in military aid sent to Pakistan since the Pakistani Army acted to crush the independence movement in East Pakistan in late March.

“If that fact could be gotten out,” the Senator said, “I think much of the antagonism to ward the United States could be erased.”

The $3.6‐million figure is used by the State Department, which says that supplies worth $2.6‐million remain to be shipped to Pakistan under existing licenses. several Senators have put the figure much higher.

Pressed to explain the figures he used, Mr. Percy acknowledged that he had made an “unfair comparison.” According to available estimates, Pakistan — a country with less than a quarter of India's population—has received more than $4‐billion in American economic and military aid, compared with a total of about $10‐billion to India (more than $9‐billion in economic aid plus a relatively small amount of military aid).

The 51‐year‐old Senator, who has been a strong supporter of development aid to India and who has visited the country several times, said that he had visited seven refugee camps and interviewed hundreds of the nearly eight million Bengalis who have fled to India.

“This is one of the greatest human tragedies history has ever unfolded,” he said.

Senator Percy said that the job the Indian Government was doing in caring for the refugees was “a miracle of administrative performance.” He added, however, that it was a burden for India that could ruin her economy. A quick political solution in East Pakistan is there fore crucial, he said, but he did not attempt to spell out what that solution might be.

Senator Percy did say, how ever, that he favored cutting off all aid to Pakistan, except for humanitarian supplies, such as food and medicine, “until there's stability” in East Pakistan.

The humanitarian aid, he said, should “go through someone other than the army of Pakistan.” He suggested that the United Nations would be a suit able body.

Although Senator Percy repeatedly expressed his feeling of horror over the events in East Pakistan, he avoided any outright denounciation of the Pakistani Government or of the Nixon Administration's policy of continuing arms shipments.

In this, he fell short of the strong statements of Senator Edward M. Kennedy earlier this month after a tour of refugee camps in his official capacity as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees.

Senator Percy said today that he was “somewhat depressed” by the talk he had heard in India about going to war with Pakistan. “You don't solve one problem by creating another,” he said.

Mr. Percy said he was also concerned about the implications of the “friendship” treaty India signed three weeks ago with the Soviet Union. “It is India's responsibility to maintain her own institutions free of outside interference,” he said.