Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s2.11

v2.c22.s2.11

The third class of umbaḷi lands may be called daṇḍige umbaḷi. In A. D. 1532, Rāmpaya, son of Bācharasaya, Agent for the affairs of Achyuta Rāya, made a grant of Hēraḍighaṭṭa village as a daṇḍige umbaḷi to Liṅgaṇa Gauḍa of Siṅgaṭigere, with all the rice-lands, fields, and money rent (suvarṇādāya). The same epigraph relates that the donor approved "of the erection of the koḍagi boundary stones according to the śāsana forwarded by Lakkarāja Timmapaya, pārupatyagāra of our Būḍihāḷ Sime".¹ This may indicate that official enquiries were set on foot before a grant of umbaḷi lands was made.