The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c14.165

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13. The names of many other chiefs of petty states may be found on going through the inscriptions of the reign of Sadasiva; the greatest number is in Cuddapah District. An inscription of Cuddapah itself records that a feudatery of Sadasiva erected a stone mandapam and planted a garden near it ⁸. Another states that Ellappa Nayaka, a feudatory of Sadasiva, granted to the god some land in the village of Chintakommadinne ⁹. Ramarajayya Pimmaraju Garu, a feudatory of Sadasiva, exempted the barbers of the village of Chinna Mudiyam from taxes ¹, The Mahamandalesvara Maharaya of Yeragudi remitted taxes on barbers at Kalamalla, with the permission of Rama Raya ². One Narayana, son of Tirumala Raja of Bhojanapullah, gave two tums and six mundas of land to Brahmans for the maintenance of the watershed ³. Finally Nandyal Aubalaraja, son of Mahamandalesvara Singarayadeva Maharaja ⁴, feudatory of Sadasiva, granted some land to the god Tiruvengalanatha ⁵; and again gave half a kunda of dry field in Cuddapah to the deity ⁶. It seems that he was succeeded by his grandson Nandyala Timmayyadeva Maharaju, who claims to be the grandson of Nandyala Avubalaraja when making a gift of a village to the temple of Ragunathadeva on the Gandikota-durga ⁷. He also, as feudatory of Sadasiva, built the village of Potladurti and gave it to the god Chennakesava ⁸, granted some lands to the gods and Brahmans of the village of Nellala ⁹, gave the god Chennakesava of Kodur some lands in Nandapadu ¹⁰ and Kodur itself ¹¹, granted the rent of a village for meeting the expense of ceremonial ¹², gave the dues of the village of Koppulu to learned men ¹³ and remitted the tax on the barbers of Bondalakunta ¹⁴, Lingala ¹⁵, Nallapalli ¹⁶, and Gandikota-sima ¹⁷.