Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s5.t2.53

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³ E.C., IX, Ht. 50, p. 93. Here we may note that the persons who were responsible for passing this order were Aṅkaya Nāyaka, son of the Mahāsamantādhipati Soṇṇaiya Nāyaka, and Superintendent of Noṇḍigali-nāḍu, Achcha Gauḍa, and Nārāyaṇan and Veṅgaḍam Uḍaiyan, the pūjāris in the temple of Selva-Nārāyaṇa-pperumāḷ at Noṇḍuṅguḷi. The lands exempted from taxation were situated in the same nāḍu. The close co-operation of the official of the State, who, in this instance, is the Superintendent of the nāḍu, with the people,—who have been represented by Achcha Gauḍa, and the temple priests, only proves our assumption made elsewhere in this treatise that the Vijayanagara Government executed its revenue decrees, especially pertaining to land within the jurisdiction of a temple, through the temple authorities. B.A.S.