Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c11.s2.t3.52

v1.c11.s2.t3.52

The ancient divisions seem to have been still preserved in the Karṇāṭaka even in Saka 1452 (A.D. 1530-1) as can be made out from the grant by Nārāyaṇa Dēva, son of Timmarasa of the *chinna-bhaṇḍāra* (i.e., gold treasury), of two shares to the god Harihara, in the village of Ballōpura which was a *vāḍa*, and was also surnamed Achvutarāvapuram, within the boundaries of the town of Harihara that belonged to the district of Pāṇḍya-nāḍ within the *vēṇṭhe* of Unchchaṅgi which was included in the *chāvaḍi* of Koṭṭūru.⁷ The territorial divisions in the reign of Achyuta Rāya in the Tamil land remained unchanged. We infer this from an inscription dated Saka 1457 Dūrmukhi (A.D. 1533-6) which speaks of Valaikuḷam in Vēlūr-nāḍu which was in Nārāyaṇapura-paṟṟu in Kuṉṟvaratana-kōṭṭam of the Chandragiri-rājya in Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Chōlamaṇḍalam.⁸ This uniformity is however at variance with that given in another inscription dated Saka 1461 (A.D. 1539-40?) according to which Perumbarrappuliyūr was in Vaḷudalam-baṭṭu-usāvaḍi that formed a subdivision of Veṇṇaiyur-nāḍu in Rājādhirajavalaṇāḍu.¹