Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s5.t2.87

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The existence of revenue officials is also seen when we notice a few details about tax-collection in those days. The provincial governments evidently imitated the procedure prevalent at the capital. The southern province of Rājagambhīra was in Śaka 1283 (A.D. 1361-62) under the famous Kampaṇa, son of Bukka I. His great minister Sōmappa, and the treasurer Viṭṭappa Ayyan, both of whom were styled "officers of the palace", issued an order to Meydēvar, who was in charge of the taxes of Puli-nāḍu, to assign certain duties, imposed in kind, on all articles that passed through his district, for the benefit of the Viṣṇu temple at Kurumāvi (mod. Kūrmāyi), Chittoor district.²