The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.51

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c11.51

In the age we are considering, the taxes formed in every case the principal sources of revenue of the king; they were an impost fixed by law, and were, if not brought voluntarily by the people themselves, collected forcibly by the king’s officers (II. 240; IV. 224; V. 98). Still the Jâtakas contain, so far as I have seen, no fixed rule concerning the nature of these taxes nor concerning the amount of the king’s share.¹

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Jātaka — Pāli