Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.709

c6.709

XVI, p. 276, text line 14); ‘income from the sale of things imported in a village’, same as Tamil *puṟav-āyam* (SITI), ‘revenue from external sources (collected mainly in cash)’ or Tamil *puṟa-kaḍamai* (SITI), ‘external taxes’, explained as taxes and fees payable to the State. But *puṟa-kaḍamai* is the same as *puṟav-āyam*. *Bāhya* and *ābhyantara* may thus mean respectively taxes payable to the king and those payable to the village authorities. See *ābhyantara*. Cf. *samudaya-bāhyādya-stamba* (EI 23), ‘land covered with original shrubs, i.e. waste which does not yield any revenue to the State’.