Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s8.24

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That there were four different kinds of guṭṭas is proved by other epigraphs. Thus in about A.D. 1150 the Seṭṭi-guṭṭas are mentioned together with the gavaṟegas, gātṛigas, seṭṭis, aṅkakāṛas, vīras, bīra-vaṇigas, gaṇḍigas, gāvuṇḍas, and gāvuṇḍasvāmis.³ The Seṭṭi-guṭṭas referred to here were evidently owners of what may be called commercial guṭṭas. We come across this name also in another inscription of the same period, assigned to about the year A.D. 1180.⁴ From a record dated A.D.