Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c12.s2.t1.35

v1.c12.s2.t1.35

These regulations may also have governed the conduct of the village organizations in the Karṇāṭaka. We can only conjecture this, since information about them is very meagre. We have, for instance, a few details about the manner in which they regulated the affairs of the ancient *agrahāra* of Sōraḍe during the times of the Kadambas. "All the inhabitants of the ancient *agrahāra* of Sōraḍe (now Choraḍi) devoted to the observance of Prāṇāyama and other Yōga practices, all assembled in thousands, made a gift of a wet and a dry field together with the remission of house-tax and family-tax to Chiladalāra Bopadalāra (modern talāra, police, watchman) in appreciation of the victory he won against royal cow-lifters on their way to make a raid of cows of the village. Whoever takes away the gift will be cast out of the country".²