Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s5.t2.91

v1.c10.s5.t2.91

There were customs officials, too, as an inscription of A.D. 1411 informs us. The customs officers (*suṅkada adhikari*) of Erumaṟai-nāḍu, Kārai-Kiḷan Puliyar and Aḷagiya-Varadar Sokkar, servants of Tigāya Perumāḷ, the customs-officer of Muḷuvāyi-nāḍu, granted the tax on the looms of the Paraiyans in Samaiyamantripaḷḷi in Erumaṟai-nāḍu.²