Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s8.18

v1.c10.s8.18

That the people did not confound the revenue from the guttus with that derived from land leased out, or granted as an endowment, to tenants, is evident from the term siddhāya givn to the fixed rent. A stone inscription dated A.D. 1184 mentions the fixed rent of the immemorial agrahāra of Jambūr.² From inscriptions dated about the same time, it is clear that the guttige system had already become native to the land. In fact, there is reason to suppose that it was not known in the middle of the tenth century. A stone inscription dated about A.D. 960 of the times of Bira (Vira) Noḷambādhirāja, informs us that Komāramaṅgalam Oḍeyar Nāgamayya's son Kaṇṇayya and Saṅkarayya gave to one hundred and eight Brahmans of Kuṟambūr fifteen gadyāṇa of gold for daily providing one parivaḍi to anyone who stopped in the Kuṟambūr guṭṭe as a permanent endowment (ondu-parivaḍi Kuṟambūra guṭṭeyoḷ