Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c10.35

c10.35

As regards municipal matters, we find (Sk 123, 119, 100) that Belgāmi included five *maṭhas*, three *puras*, and seven Brahmapuris, together with apparently three medical dispensaries (Sb 277). So also (Ml 109) Talakāḍ-Rājarājapura contained seven *puras* and five *maṭhas*. Agara, again, comprised three cities and eighteen *khampanas* (Tl 133, 197). In all important trading places there was usually a *paṭṭaṇa-svāmi* or town mayor, generally a prominent merchant. Some of the regulations laid down (unfortunately partly effaced) on the foundation of a town in 1331 were the following: "No fine was to be levied from a mother; brothers, elder and younger, were to share alike in property; if a female servant died, the body was to be carried forth and (? buried); if a wife died, the body was to be cremated" (Ml 114). On the rebuilding of Bāgūr in 1554, settlers were encouraged by freeing them from all taxation for one year from their arrival; after that they would be considered as permanent residents and be given full possession, all previous claims being cancelled (Hk 112).