The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.s1.46

c18.s1.46

The effort to determine the incidence of actual taxation on the agricultural land in the Deccan of our period cannot succeed in the present state of our knowledge. But inscriptions Nos. 4 and 5, (24) engraved in the Rājarājes'vara temple at Tanjore in 1014 A.D., give us a good idea of the land taxation towards the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 10th century A. D. The incidence of the land taxation under Kṛṣṇa III in the portions of Tamil country annexed by him to the Rāṣṭrakūṭa empire, towards the middle of the 10th century, could not probably have been much different; hence the utilisation of these inscriptions cannot be regarded as unjustifiable for the purpose of the present work.