History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c15.14

c15.14

¹ It is important to note that these were not at all in the nature of taxes but more of free-will offerings of first fruits by gardeners to kings and of supplies of means of transport to royal officers while on tour. Mr. Longhurst is therefore wrong when he remarks on this that ' it is thus obvious that the people were liable to all these taxes and imposts on the ordinary necessaries of life,' and that it clearly shows that in the fourth century at any rate there was no ' Golden Age' in Southern India. (*An. Rep. of the Arch. Dep. of Southern Circle 1918-1919, Part II, p. 21.*)