Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c12.s3.t2.8

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These local bodies assumed greater importance under the rulers of Vijayanagara, who, evidently with the object of knitting closer the ties between themselves and their subjects, made gifts in the presence of the villagers. Thus in the times of Kampana Oḍeyar, who was placed over Mūlbāgal in A.D. 1363, his son Kāmaiya Nāyaka in the presence of the farmers of the kingdom granted lands in Beḷagatta, a subdivision of Toṛevali-nāḍu, as a sarvamānya-koḍage to Eḷahaṅka-nāḍ Allāḷa Jiva's son Taṇṇiyappa.⁴ Petty chiefs gave gifts of taxes with the permission of all the samayas. In Saka 1482 (A.D. 1560-1) during the viceroyalty of the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Siddarāja Timmarāja at Koṇḍavīṭi-sīma, in the reign of Sadāśiva Rāya, the Dommari chiefs Chimku Reḍḍi, Narasāneṇḍu, and Komāraya Viraya, with the permission of all the samayas made a gift of the Dommari paṇam (a tax levied on the Dommaras) due from the village of Ayanavōlu to the temple of Gōpinātha of that village in the Guntur district.¹