Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s3.5

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¹ Mānya seems to have been used in more than one sense. According to Fleet, mānya means "lands either altogether exempt from taxation or liable to only a trifling quit-rent". I.A., IV, p. 332, n. Mānya may be compared with śeṣe-mānya mentioned in A.D. 1190 together with ōvata-kāruṇya and fixed rent. E.C., V, P. I. Cn 179, p. 203. Among the Holeyas of Kanara, the leaders of the tribe or clan are jam-mānya or jam-mane. These Holeyas belong to the Pariar class which also includes in it the Mādigas. Cf. mānya with manneya. In a stone inscription dated in A.D. 1180 and A.D. 1186 we are informed that the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras Tailapa Dēva and Yegahrasa presented the manneya kirukula, āya, and dāya of Kiru Balligāve, for the services of the god Kēdarēśvara Dēva. Rice interprets manneya as Seigniorage. Mys. Ins., p. 77, n. Manneya is also the designation of an office. Under the Western Chālukya king Sōmēśvara Dēva in A.D. 1070, the thousand Brahmans of the great Kuppaṭūr agrahāra together with the local officials and the manneyar gave some lands for the local temple. The same inscription contains under the date A.D. 1180 the name of Boppa Dēvarasa, manneya of Sattalige-nād, E.C., VIII, Sb. 276, p. 47. In A.D. 1173 the Kalachuriya ruler Sōyi Dēva granted the manneya of the 12 chieftains to Kirukuḷa Nāyaka. E.C., VIII, Sb. 139, p. 19. In A.D. 1472 the Mahāprabhu Bhairappa Nāyaka is called "the sun to kill tigers, champion over the manneyas of the Iḍiga eight daṇḍige". E.C., VIII, Sa. 60, p. 103. In about A.D. 1178 Boppa Dēva is called the manneya of the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Kampaṇa. E.C., VII, Sb. 325, p. 56. See also, ibid, Sb. 327 and 328, p. 57.