Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c13.s5.36
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c13.s5.36
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v1.c13.s5.36
Fines and punishment by trampling under foot were imposed on those who refused to pay tribute or those who had killed their sons, in the twelfth century, in the Kadaṁba-maṇḍala. Sittaraṭevaḷe Bārasinda refused to pay tribute in about A.D. 1139. And so they "trampled on his shoulders and he went to svarga (avara hegala meṭṭi svargakke sanda)".³