The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c14.119.3

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D.)⁴ It is possible that in the plains the latter tax was sometimes meant to be a poll-tax on the Muhammadans.⁵ But the probability that it was also sometimes a tax for the cost of military defence against the depredations of the Turuṣkas or a tax for raising money to buy off the unwelcome visitors is not entirely eliminated. The latter policy was followed by the Sultāns of Delhi when the terrible Mughul hordes appeared on their frontier, and the British Government even to-day pays subsidies to many of the unruly frontier chiefs of N. Western India to keep them quiet. *Mallakara*, to my mind, was probably a tax of this nature, either to buy them off or to defray the cost of fighting the daring marauders from the western hills. It is not necessary however to agree with Lévi, that the Mallas had established in the 7th century some sort of suzerainty over the Bagmati valley.⁶ But later on, in spite of the attempts of the more civilized people of the Valley to keep out these sturdy mountaineers, they appear to have gradually succeeded in penetrating into *Nepāla*. Thus the Buddhist Vaṁśāvalī of Wright describes the foundation of Campāpurī, to the south of Patan, in N. S. 111 (=A.D. 991) by two Malla princes. A MS. of the *Devī-māhātmya* is dated in the year 118 (A. D. 998), in the reign of a chief named Dharmamalla. The chronicle of Wright again refers to the conflict of Nānyadeva with the Mallas in Nepal.