Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c14.s2.68

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To these villages Sadāśiva Rāya added those of Biḍupalle and Velidaḍakala in the Penugoṇḍa-rājya. Veṅkaṭapati Rāya I, towards the end of the sixteenth century, granted to the same *daraga* the lands below the Roddam tank, the Kottacheruvu tank and those near the Vuppuvāgu. All these were confirmed and restored with the additions of a paddy field and a garden at Jagadēvupālayam by Veṅkaṭapati Rāya II, who further gave to the *daraga* the right of taking water from the channel Kayyam kāluva together with a flower garden with a well, at the northern entrance to the *daraga*. There were grave reasons why Veṅkaṭapati Rāya II renewed and restored the original grant. The copper-plate says that it was done because "of the loss of original documents, on the occasion when Immaḍi Hāvali-Baire Gauḍa of Peḍḍa Baḷḷāpura seized the fortress of Penugoṇḍa then in the possession of Haḍapa Komārayya".¹ It is clear from this that the Hindu rulers were sincere in their desire to afford shelter to the followers of Islām in their Empire.