Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s5.t2.43

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It was not only arable land that was leased out in the Vijayanagara days. We know that in Saka 1481 (A.D. 1559-60), in the times of the *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Rāma Rāja Tirumalarājayyadēva, the lease of the forest land or *jaṅgali-guṭṭu*, as it was called, was also granted.⁴