Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c11.s2.t3.43

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In A.D. 1406 certain specified villages formed a part of a Bhānuvatipaṭṭaṇa which was in Koṭṭūru-simhāsana, which belonged to Uchchaṅgī-vēṇṭhe.⁸ In A.D. 1420 a village or haḷḷi is said to have been in a chāvaḍi which was in a nāḍu belonging to a vēṇṭhe that formed a division of the province.⁹ This order however is reversed in an inscription dated Śaka 1349 (1350) [A.D. 1428-9] which mentions Sunepuha-nalūr in the Mēlmuri of the Maḷa-nāḍu as a subdivision of the Rājarāja-valaṇāḍu which belonged to the Tiruchchirāpaḷḷi-rājya or *chāvaḍi*.¹ In a record dated only in the cyclic year Parābhava, (Saka 1348) [A.D. 1426-7], we have a Chaturvēdimaṅgalam (a village granted to Brahmans) in a *nāḍu* which was in a *paṟṟu* or district that formed a division of *kōṭṭam* in Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Chōlamaṇḍalam.² In Saka 1431 (A.D. 1509-10) a village granted by Narasayya Dēva Mahārāya of the Vasisṭha-gōtra and the Sūrya-vaṃśa is said to have belonged to the Pulivindala-sthala in Mulikīnāṭi-sīmā, which was a subdivision of the Ghaṇḍi-kōṭa, a district of the Udayagiri-rājya.³ According to an inscription dated Saka 1432 (A.D. 1510-11) Arasūrkilpaṟṟu was in the Veṇṇaiyūr-nāḍu which was in the Rājādhirāja-valanāḍu that belonged to the Bhuvanēkavīranpaṭṭaṇa-sīmai.⁴ Fourteen years later (Saka 146=A.D. 1524-5) Muliki-nāḍu is spoken of as a subdivision of the Ghaṇḍi-kōṭa-sīmā which formed a part of the Udayagiri-rājya.⁵ An inscription dated Saka 1451 (A.D. 1529-30) locates the village called Kaḍalāḍ in the Paḍaiviḍu-mahārājya that was in the Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Chōlamaṇḍalam in Phalgunnakōṭaka in Paṅgala-nāḍu.⁶