Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.t2.35

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c7.t2.35

In this connection two epigraphs in the Pudukkōṭṭai State are invaluable. One found at Tirukkaṭṭalai and dated A.D. 1462 states that the tax on the *devadānam* lands to the provincial chief was five-tenths of the produce.65 The other one found at Paḷaṅkarai and dated A.D. 1481 records a grant of land and tanks to a hermit (*tapasvi*) as *kuḍinīṅgādevadānam* and fixes the following rates of assessment:

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