Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s8.27

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1287 we can infer that Seṭṭi-guṭṭas were persons of some importance. The Nāḍ-Seṭṭi-Guṭṭa Chalaḍaṅka Rāma Seṭṭi, along with a number of prominent persons of Bem-maṭṭanūru, in that year, caused to be written and gave to Perumāḷa Dēva, the famous general of the Hoysala king Narasimha, a gift of imposts (specified) for rebuilding the Kurubara Kāleya tank in Bemmaṭṭanūru.¹ Seṭṭi-guṭṭas also figure under the Yādava rulers. An inscription dated A.D. 1271, while praising Beṭṭūr, situated in the middle of the Pāṇḍya-dēśa, also speaks highly of its maneyars, seṭṭi-guṭṭas, gauḍas, and ūr-oḍeyars.²