Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6302

c6.6302

udraṅga (IE 8-3; 8-5; EI 22; CII 3, 4; HRS), explained as ‘the fixed tax’, ‘the land tax’, ‘the principal tax’ or ‘the tax on the permanent tenants’; generally mentioned along with uparikara, i. e. minor taxes or the tax on temporary tenants; same as klpta. Udraṅga may have been paid in grains at least in some regions since the Audraṅgika (collector of udraṅga) is sometimes separately mentioned together with the Hiraṇyasāmudāyika (collector of revenue in cash). In one case, the land is said to have been granted after making it udraṅga, i. e. s-odraṅga. See s-odraṅga (IA 10), draṅga, uttāra. Cf. mah-odraṅga in pravartita-mahodraṅga-ādi-dāna-vyasan-ānupajāta-santoṣa (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 118, text line 40).