Local Government in Ancient India c14.17

c14.17

who permitted ‘the merchants of Moṭṭupalli who traded with distant islands and coast-towns to stop at their will in their homes at Moṭṭupalli and to leave them for other places (without any official pressure). He also remitted the tax called *aputtirika-daṇḍam* on foreign merchants (who traded in his dominions). Further, the duties on gold and silver were abolished; a third of the export duty on sandal was remitted, and merchants were allowed the liberty to sell their goods brought from other shores to anybody under any conditions, and to carry in exchange likewise to other countries any goods they chose. It was proclaimed that henceforward no cloths would be detained in the warehouse (?), and tolls on other articles would under no circumstances be different from what they were before.’ The following rates of duty were fixed: