Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c18.s2.t2.8

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¹ E.C., X., Mb. 49 (a), pp. 86-7, Mb. 119, p. 106. ² 341 of 1907. In the Ep. Report for 1921, p. 103, it is wrongly said that this epigraph is the earliest record which mentions the two factions. The fact that we have inscriptions in the Karṇāṭaka which speak of the two classes prior to the times of Rājēndra Chōḷa Dēva, explodes the theory that they originated only in the Tamil land in the eleventh century at the command of a Chōḷa king. B.A.S. ³ E.C., XII., Si. 104, p, 103, text, p. 303. ⁴ E.C., V., P. I., Cn. 265, p.