Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.s2.26

c7.s2.26

An epigraph of A.D. 1414-15 at Perunagar in the Chingleput district records the fixing of the amount of consolidated taxes from the weavers, oilmongers and the other commercial classes in return for their burning a perpetual lamp in the local temple.337 Another inscription in the Mulbāgal taluk of the Kōlār district in the Mysore State registers that Muḷuvāyi Hariyappa gave to the merchant Śaṅkapa Śeṭṭi a śāsana remitting the fixed rent of 2 haṇa he paid, besides many taxes on condition he presented daily 2 betel leaves to the temple at Muḷuvāyi.³³⁸ These inscriptions clearly prove that though the items of taxation payable in kind and cash were many, the burden of taxation was not much, for here we see a regular commutation of a variety of taxes, customary and otherwise, for comparatively small returns.