Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s6.3

v1.c10.s6.3

A complete Register (Rāyarēkha) of these assessments, which, as the grant of Immaḍi Sadāśiva Rāyer, the substance of which is noticed after No. II, of the following documents, demonstrates, previously existed, was drawn up during the Vijayanagara government for the whole of the Carnataca and Tuluva countries, constituting what may be called the home provinces of that state, by which, as long as it existed, the demand of revenue was regulated. But money assessments were never extended by those princes, or their dependents, to the Tamil countries, where the immemorial usage of delivering the revenue in kind by fixed vāram or scale of division, regulated originally, by the situation and circumstances of each village, was still continued'.¹