Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.t2.136

c7.t2.136

These taxes on the professions must have been paid obviously only in cash. It seems also they were only annual payments, for, if they had been monthly contributions, they would have weighed very heavily on the people. That they were annual payments is also indicated by an inscription which states that Vīra Bukkaṇa Uḍaiyār (Bukka II), in Ś. 1326, fixed the taxes payable by the Seṭṭis, Kaikkōḷas and the Vāṇiyas living in the premises of the temple at Puḷipparakōyil at two paṇams per year on each individual.150