Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s2.14

v2.c22.s2.14

A daṇḍige umbaḷi also carried with it, like all kinds of umbaḷi gifts, the usual rights. In some instances it was granted for the gauḍike of a nāḍ. Bayirappa Nāyakayya's agents Kampaṇṇa Nāyaka and Nandyapa Nāyaka in A.D. 1543 granted to Śitakal Gaṅgappa Nāyaka for the nāḍ-gauḍike a daṇḍige umbaḷi village, inscribed on stone as follows: "Having given the nāḍ-gauḍike of the Kōḷāla-sime which was favoured as their māgaṇi by Achyuta Mahārāya, we grant you freedom from tax for dry and wet fields in all the villages of this sime, and as a daṇḍige-umbaḷi we grant you Vommachihalli belonging to the Kōḷāla-nāḍ-sime, together with all rights" (specified) as a permanent endowment.²