Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s1.t2.41

v2.c21.s1.t2.41

We may give one more example of State interference in social matters. An inscription dated only in the cyclic year Aṅgiras but assignable to A. D. 1632,² of the reign of Śrīraṅga Dēva, registers an undertaking by the residents of the village Tiruvamattūr, South Arcot district, that the three artisan communities (Kaṇmāla) carpenters, blacksmiths, and goldsmiths of the several villages in the northern parru (ward) shall no more be treated ill, or deprived of their privileges; that the same