Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t2.5

v2.c21.s3.t2.5

It is not surprising, therefore, that a people who were thus uncommonly careful in the matter of including the details of the pañchāṅga, should have copiously copied verses from the purāṇas and smṛitis in the grants. The imprecatory verses beginning with sva-dattām and ending with achyutam-padam which we have just referred to in this chapter, are similar to those found in the smṛitis.³ A copper-plate grant dated A. D. 1403 recording the gift of the village of Sibur in Chetur-nāḍ, to certain Brahmans (named) by Harihara Rāya, contains the following evidently from the composer of the śāsana: