Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.t2.183

c7.t2.183

Among these taxes the most unpopular one was the tax on marriages. It was generally payable on occasions of marriage both by the brides and bridegrooms of all castes. The inscriptions of the period credit Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya with the remission of the taxes on marriages in the several provinces of the Vijayanagar empire.¹⁹⁸ According to a record the great ministers, Sāḷuva Timmappayya, Sāḷuva Govindayya and Adapināyaningāru were chiefly instrumental in securing this remission for the people.¹⁹⁹ Similarly the tax payable by the marriage parties for riding at marriages was remitted in favour of the people of Satināḍ.²⁰⁰