Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c13.s2.11

v1.c13.s2.11

Brahmans too sometimes took part in these deliberative assemblies. A native of Arumbondai, in the thirteenth century A.D., aimed an arrow at another man, mistaking him for an animal. The latter died of the effects of the wound soon after. The Brahmans together with the nāṭṭār (people of the district)¹ decided that, on behalf of the deceased the accused had to provide for a lamp in the temple of Bhūmīśvaram at Marakkāṇam, in the South Arcot district.² Inscriptions of the same age recording similar instances inform us that the accused persons were sometimes made to provide temples with forty-eight sheep.³