Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s5.t2.70

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Land revenue was called by the general name of śist. Anāyakā-ayya's agent Nāgappa Nāyaka in about A.D. 1557 made a grant of śist to Toṭada Uchchappoḍear.⁷ A general order issued by the Emperor was called nirūpa or rāyasa.⁸ Such royal orders were entered in four registers, the original order, in the case of temple-lands, being placed in the hands of the sthānikas or temple-managers, as a śāsana. Dēva Rāya II gave an order to Śrīgirinātha of Chandragiri, so we are told in an inscription dated only in the cyclic year Sādhāraṇa, permitting him to remit the *jōḍi* of 131 *pon* (varāham), and 6½ *paṇam* or 1,361¼ *paṇam* at ten *paṇam* per *pon* due to the Chandragiri-rājya from Tiruppukkuḷi, Chingleput district, in order that that amount might be utilized for the temple of Pōrēṟṟupperumāḷ of that place. The order further requests the Viceroy to send his own *tiruvahichchiṭṭu* to the *sthānikas* of the village, to make copies of the king's order (*rāyasa*) in the four registers, and to place the original document in the hands of the *sthānikas* as a *śāsana*. Srīgirinātha issued the *tiruvahichchiṭṭu*, in compliance with the order of the king, to the *sthānikas* of Tiruppukkuḷi.¹