Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.s3.2

c7.s3.2

In all Hindu empires the cash expenditure of the government on account of administration was considerably small. The administration was conducted on traditional lines, and there was no necessity for the payment of all the officers of the state. They were generally paid in the shape of grants of *sarvamānyams* which they enjoyed without paying tax to the government or certain taxes were made over to them. The humbler servants of the government were granted likewise service *ināms* and *mānyams* which they also enjoyed tax-free as remuneration for their services. The Vijayanagar kings did not try to maintain a huge naval force, which, if they had organised, would have consumed a large portion of their financial resources. The right of policing (*pāḍikāval*)