Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c13.s5.9

v1.c13.s5.9

We have recorded the migration of the ryots of a province in A.D. 1446-7, in the reign of Dēva Rāya II, on account of the extraction of forced payments by the ministers of the king. This deplorable state of affairs was put an end to by Dēva Rāya himself. The royal order was sent to the provincial officer Aṇṇappa Oḍeyar, who engraved it in some places and not in others. A petition was consequently sent to Nāgarasa, evidently the viceroy of the province, who extended the order of the king to the whole country.³