Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.s2.10

c7.s2.10

Not only this. In certain parts of the empire where the people were not well united to offer civil resistance, they abandoned their original homes and migrated elsewhere. To prevent such migrations or, when they had migrated, to call them back to their old villages the government had to reduce the taxes. Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya truly says in his Āmuktamālyada that “the king is never prosperous even though he conquers the seven Dvīpas who has an officer who does not call back the subjects when they leave the state on account of suffering.”³²⁴ Thus during the time of Virūpaṇṇa Uḍaiyār the weavers of Perunagar left their district and migrated elsewhere on account of heavy taxation, even without paying the government dues. Hence the state reduced certain taxes payable by them and persuaded them to resettle in their territories.325