Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.t2.24

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specified fee for strengthening the tank bunds with stones and earth (197 of 1910). But this epigraph refers to the rent payable by the tenant to the landlord, and hence though we take the inscription to belong to the Vijayanagar period it is not of great value in determining the rate of taxes collected by the state. Similarly in A.D. 1555-56 one Aubala Rāya was allowed to enjoy two-thirds of the produce from certain lands, and was required to give the remaining portion doubtless as mēlvāram to the temple from which he purchased lands at Ālamūru (66 of 1915). Here too the reference is to the rent from the land and the epigraph has no reference to taxes.