History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c18.s1.15

c18.s1.15

6. An inscription of Rājarāja III's seventh year (c. A.D. 1223) at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr,⁶ decreeing the levying of new taxes on this and other villages which had hitherto been exempt. Among the taxes is "the *kācu* paid by the people of the Ājīvikas", or “ the Ājīvika poll-tax ” (*Acuvikaḷ-pērār-kācu*), which is followed by the tax on the Uvaiccas (*Uvaiccar-pērār-kuṭi-k-kācum*).¹