Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s8.42

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⁴² According to Mr. R. Narasimhachar sōtta seems to the derived from śrōtriya. But it is more probable that sōtta may have been the corrupt form of sūtra. The term sūtra guttige refers to the rental system, while śrōtriya was the name given to a village granted to a temple and a number of Brahmans. Thus in A.D. 1468 Hosahaḷḷi is called the śrōtriya village situated in Kuruvaṅka-nāḍ-veṇṭheya given as a gift by Dēva Rāja of Nāgamaṅgala to the god Rāmachandra together with 76 Brahmans of Harahu. E.C., III, Sr. 139, p. 33. Śrōtriya is also the name given to one of the judges who sits in a law court. Gautama, XXVIII, 49-50, p.