Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.305

v2.c26.s2.305

Kāruka, Ci. Kāraka (a) An artisan, an artificer, a mechanic. Pañcha-Kāruka=the five artificers or artisans: carpenters, goldsmiths, black-smiths, stone-cutters (masons and braziers (Kit. pp. 510, 921). (b) A tax generally of the mohatarpha (?) (c) A tax paid by certain classes in Kṛiṣhṇarāya Oḍeyar's time for relief from payment of certain duties (Nagar, Mysore) (N. p. 142). (d) The wet season; the crop of rice sown in April, and reaped in June-July. (e) Black, dark, also salt, saline, withered. (f) Kārukāya, Tel. weak or blighted corn (W. p. 265).