Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c13.s3.18

v1.c13.s3.18

A case that recalls the mild treatment of the earlier days is given in an inscription dated Saka 1366 (A.D. 1443-4) of the times of Dēva Rāya II. It refers to a prāyaśchitta (expiatory ceremony) for a criminal offence. The epigraph records a gift of money by the corporation (?) called nakharadavaru of Dharmapaṭṭana to the temple of Nakharēśvara-Mahādēva at the instance of several seṭṭikāras, of Padavakēri, as an expiatory offering for their having murdered two men of that community, while Timmaṇa Oḍeyar was governing Bārakūru-rājya.³