The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c15.s3.t7.26

v2.c15.s3.t7.26

Another source of income for the State was the pullari or tax on pasture lands (pullu = grass and ari = tax). The tax called pullari was collected on cattle grazing on the government pastures attached to each village or in the adjacent forest areas.⁶ Besides pullari some of the Kākatīya inscriptions mention another kind of suṅkamu known as aḍḍavaṭṭa-suṅkamu. What this tax was is not definitely known. According to some scholars it was a tax on a herd of sheep and amounted to a kind of property tax on cattle. It is not known whether this term denoted a tax on all classes of cattle or only on certain kinds. If it referred exclusively to sheep, then it would have to be interpreted as an impost relating to industry, since blankets are woven with the wool of the sheep, and not as a pure property tax levied on all classes of cattle. Just as it was on the loads of pack-oxen, in general duty was also collected on each pack-load of salt (uppu perike suṅkamu).