Abstract

The taxes on landed property contained of collections in kind and in coin.Custom invested the king with the right of collecting a large number of taxes and dues which fell either directly or indirectly upon land."whichever the king may lay his hands upon and enjoy."is the technical phase that occurs in many inscriptions in giving away to a donee the full possession of a piece of land with all its rights and enjoyments . These consisted of a good number of items of service called.The consisted of a good number of items of service called kudimai(tenancy obligations).which appear to have been as strictly demanded and enforced as land revenue itself,i.e.kadamai.When grants of land were made to temples and Brahmins and for other charitable purposes,the original holders were divested of their rights of tenancy evidently by some system of compensation.From this one may conclude that the tenants had ana priori right to the lands that they cultivated, subject only to their payment of kadamai and kudimai.or,as detailed in some inscriptions,"subject only to kudimai.which was tenable at the door of the "tenant.and to the income by taxes (varippadu)which the village paid

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