Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s1.t2.9

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¹ My. Arch. Report for 1925, p. 15. In three copper-plate grants dated Śālivāhana Śaka 1212, Vikrama Śaka 1012, and Śālivāhana Śaka 1157 referring to the reigns of Bukka Rāya, and a number of other kings some interesting details are given as regards the question of intermarriage among the gauḍa and the reḍḍi classes, and the different kinds of honours to which they were entitled on festive occasions. These inscriptions are rambling epigraphs and are all dated wrongly, and, therefore, untrustworthy. But some of the details are the following: The gauḍas, we are told, were given the right of possessing a palanquin carried cross-ways, round umbrella, torch by day, big and little kettle-drum, silk flag, turban, gold marriage crown, gold necklace, and shoes of honour. One of them states that a number of reḍḍis (named with descent), of the Sujana-kula and Pembolu-gōtra, on the Sultan (not named) demanding one of their daughters migrated (the same night ?) with 101 families and seven elephants to the Naḍinigadda country. There they sought to make marriages in Chittalapuripaṭṭaṇa, but were refused. Whereupon Koṇḍāma Nāyaka and two others went to Penugoṇḍa and represented the matter to Rāma Rāyal and Bukka Rāyal, who came with an army to Naḍinigadda. There they held an enquiry as to why the reḍḍis of Bōḍipet and Chandragiri declined intermarriages, and sent for their guru Tātāchārya to decide the question. In his presence the heads of the Sujana-kula were invested with honours (like those given above), and they agreed to make certain payments (specified) on occasions of marriages. Marriages were accordingly performed, the Rāyal spending 150 Rāmateṅki-varāha for the purpose. E. C. XIII, 18, 72, 82, pp. 119, 128, 131, and text, pp. 363, 388, 397. See also Pg.