Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s10.t3: C. Revenue from Gardens and Plantations

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The gardens and plantations formed another source of revenue. But there is no means however of gauging the amount of receipts which the State derived from them. The revenue which the Government got from them came under the general name of āgram.³ If the State taxed the tanks, as an inscription dated A.D. 1427-8 seems to suggest,⁴ it is not improbable that gardens as well were taxed. But evidence is lacking about this; and all that can be said for the present is that gardens and groves, the produce of which when sold, as in A.D. 1551-2⁵, was sufficient to maintain the worship in a temple, must certainly have come under the notice of the Vijayanagara Government.