The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c9.200

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15. Agriculture was not greatly fostered during Sadasiva's government. We know of a canal dug in the village of Pottapi; but this was done through the generosity of Varadarasu and Yellamarasu who gave sixty kuntas of land for that purpose 4. Another irrigation canal called Antarangakalva was dug in the same village by the munificence of Varadayya, a Matla chief 5. The only occasion in which the name of Sadasiva is associated with any agricultural work is when in 1551 he made a grant free of rent to the salt dealers of Molakalmuru Taluk for the the removal of the saline earth 6.