Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c13.s5.18

v1.c13.s5.18

Another inscription dated only in the cyclic year Saumya, Kārttigai, 15, but also of the times of Dēva Rāya II, found in Korukkai, in the Tanjore district, says that the ninety-eight subdivisions of the Valangai and the ninety-eight subdivisions of the Iḍangai classes joined together and evidently decided that "because they did not tax us according to the yield on the crop but levied the taxes unjustly. . . . we are about to run away. Then we realized that because we of the whole country (maṇḍalam) were not united in a body, we were unjustly (dealt with). . . . Hereafter we shall but pay what is just and in accordance with the yield of the crops and we shall not pay anything levied unlawfully".²