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taxation or inability to pay taxes also forced villagers to
abandon their homes and migrate to other places. Under the
thoroughly centralised revenue administration of the Cas,
people who, for three years, failed to pay taxes due on the
lands owned by them forfeited their lands, which were then
sold by the village assembly+ Inscriptions of the reign of
Ku]Zttithga I furnish instances of assessments not being paid
regularly and the lands of tenants who defaulted payment being
sold in consequence. Some BrThmaa tenants of Vavai-mtvicaturvdi-magaam,
for instance, being unable to pay the
assessments, left the village Again, in the forty-ninth year
of Ku]Zttuñga I (A.D. 1118), tenants deserted the village of
K!ri-rAjapuram as they could not pay the taxes There are
several examples of such desertions in the later
But it is not possible to say whether there were many such
instances during this period. Except for a few scattered
examples, there is hardly any evidence regarding migrations.
1. .E.R. for 1897,
2. !'.E.R. for 1910, Inscription No.98 of 1910.
3. Ibid. 1 Inscription No.6 Zf7 of 1909.
k. Cf., B.A.Saletore, Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagar
Empire, II, pp.l97-198.