State and Government in Ancient India c20.59

c20.59

another of king Achyutarāya of Vijayanagar¹ and two epigraphs from Guntur district² describe how taxes were remitted in the case of Brāhmaṇas in medieval times; but they also prove that the exemptions were new and unusual ones. The available evidence shows that such exemptions were not the rule, but the exception; hence the great credit claimed for them by the kings concerned.