Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c10.s9.46

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This custom of allowing the average man a right over the local dues of the district seems to have been in vogue from the commencement of Vijayanagara history. That accounts for the Gauḍas and Seṭṭis granting a viceroy in A.D. 1378 the dues of their province. "Adorned with all titles . . . the Sādali-nāḍ Gauḍas (named), the four Seṭṭis of Sege, and all the elders of the Sālumūle, having set up the baisaṇige made the following regulations—Grain entering the fair wholesale, free of all dues for one year: after that the following dues to be levied—according to the custom of Sādali, the royal due one, the lordship due one, the five Seṭṭis' due one, for miṇḍa-guḍḍas one,—these five dues may Dēpaṇṇa Oḍeyar (the viceroy) levy and live" permanently.²