Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c11.s2.t3.36

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The Vijayanagara monarchs maintained, on the whole, these ancient divisions.² This we infer from inscriptions discovered both in the southern and western parts of the Empire. We shall first enumerate these subdivisions and then classify them. In A.D. 1346 we have the village, the nāḍu, and prānta.³ The village called Miṭṭaligaṇa-kaṭṭe granted to the astrologer Rāmaṇṇa-Jōyiśayya by Bukka Rāya in A.D. 1354-55 was included in the township of the city of the god Harihara, which was in the vēṇṭhe of Uchchaṅgī which belonged to the chāvaḍi of Koṭṭūru.⁴ Karaikōṭṭu Brahmadēśam, a village in Śaka 1285 (A.D. 1363-4), is said to have been in Dāmal-nāḍu, a subdivision of Dāmal-kōṭṭam, in Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Chōḷamaṇḍalam.⁵ The temple Aḷuḍaiyār-Tiruppanaṅgāvuḍaiya-Nāyinar at Tiruppanaṅgāḍu, was, according to an inscription dated Śaka 1303, (A.D. 1381-82), situated in Brahmadēśaparru, a subdivision of Kaḷmmala-nāḍu in Kāliyūr-Kōṭṭam, a district of Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Chōḷamaṇḍalam.⁶ The village of Nallūr, in Śaka 1321 (A.D. 1399-1400), was a part of Mēguṇā-valaṇāḍu (or also called Naḷaṭuripāḷem-sīmā) which belonged to Paiyūri-kōṭṭa, which was a subdivision of Chandragiri-mahārājya.⁷