The Rashtrakutas and their Times c16.14

c16.14

if so, the statement of Vijñāneśvara at Yājñavalkya-smṛti, I, 318, that land could be given in charity only by a king and not by a subordinate officer seems to have been based on contemporary practice in the Deccan. The Hatti-Mattur inscription from Dharwar District (10) belonging to the reign of Indra III does not really go against this conclusion; for it says that Leṇḍeyarasa, the officer over Purigeri 300 caused to be allotted the village of Vattavur. The construction of the sentence becomes explicable only on the assumption that Leṇḍeya did not himself make the grant, but only procured the imperial sanction for the alienation of the village in favour of the temple.