Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c12.s3.t2.10

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¹ 59 of 1917. For other instances of corporate bodies permitting people to levy certain taxes, see 384 of 1914 dated only in the cyclic year Svabhānu, Paṅguni. This epigraph is assigned to the reign of Bukka I. It relates that the people of Kūjai Kuḷattūr, Kiḷaipuduvayal, and Vikrama-Sōḷa-Muttaraiyar permitted the goldsmiths the right of levying certain taxes. We do not know what action the State took in this matter. In A.D. 1307 the Vira Baṇajas, leṭṭi-guṭṭas of Arbala-Seventy and others conferred on Māra Gavuḍa the office of nāḍ-heggaḍe with the right of collecting one paṇam from forty villages, half a paṇam from thirty villages, and tolls, etc. E.C., XI, Hk. 137, p. 138.