Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s3.23

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Under Viṣṇuvardhana Hoysala there was a tax on oil-mills.² Payment in gold, export dues, import dues, tax on oil mills, tax on potters, tax on washermen, tax on prostitutes, tax on carts, tax on masons, tax on basket-makers, tax on shepherds, tax on 500 ploughs of paṇṇāya, and tax on barbers (mane chinna, voḷavāru hoṛavāru gaṇadeṛe kumbāra-deṛe asaga (agasa ?)-deṛe toḷḷu-deṛe bhaṇḍi-deṛe oḍḍa-deṛe mēda-deṛe sāda-deṛe uduvalu-deṛe aynūru guliya paṇṇāya deṛe nāvida-deṛe) : these were the taxes in A.D. 1162.³