Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s2.20

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Finally, we may note that there was the hereditary permanent estate granted as an umbaḷi. Rāja Oḍeyar, son of Chāmarasu Oḍeyar of Maisūr, during the reign of Veṅkaṭapati Dēva Mahārāya, in A. D. 1615, made for the god Rāmachandra of Vahnipura, a grant of village of Bēvinahaḷḷi, belonging to Bannūr, which he had received from Veṅkaṭapati Dēva Mahārāya as an hereditary permanent estate (*sthāyiyāgi vumb-aliyāgi banda Bannūra sthalakke etc.*)¹