Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.s2.18

c7.s2.18

Cinnappa Nāyaka of Tanjore in the year Svabhānu exempted the five classes of Kammāḷar, blacksmiths, carpenters, goldsmiths, architects and brass workers, from the payment of the taxes of kāṇikkai, kaṭṭāyam, pākkukkaṭṭāyam and talaiyārikkam, as they had decided to emigrate elsewhere when forced to pay them, owing to their inability to pay.³³⁰ During the reign of Acyuta Rāya also the people of Madiyaṇi Vaḍaparru were taxed heavily, and such taxes were collected rigorously by an officer called Rāyappa Nāyakkar from his camp at Tiruppattūr. The residents were not able to pay the taxes due from their village, kaḍamai and kāṇikkai. Hence a few of them sold their lands to the authorities of the temple of Tirupūvālaikuḍi Uḍaiya Nāyaṉār, while several families left the village being unable to pay their portion of the tax.³³¹