Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.t2.43

c7.t2.43

A record at Śērmādēvi in the Tinnevelly district dated A.D. 1550-51 registers the fixing of the rate of taxes by Viśvanātha Nāyakkar, the agent of Rāma Rāja Viṭṭaladēva Mahā Rāja, who remitted all taxes (including uḷavu and paṇḍāravāḍai, since the devadāna and the brahmadeya lands in a number of villages surrounding Śēravaṇmādēvi had been abandoned by the dispensing kuḍi and the paḍais. According to the new rate only one kāṇi was charged per mā of land.68