Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s2.26

v2.c22.s2.26

When we come to Vijayanagara times, we meet with a variety of *mānya* grants. *Koḍage mānya*, *puri mānya*, *kaṭṭu koḍage*, *prabhu koḍage*, *dayirya koḍage*, *satige koḍage*, and *nettaru koḍage*—those were the seven different kinds of *mānya* grants. There were the ordinary grants styled simply *koḍage* gifts. Thus in about A. D. 1490 Nañja Rāja Oḍeyar made a grant of a *koḍage* house to Bōḷa-Mallikārjuna Oḍeyar.⁵ We have some details about the different kinds of *koḍage* grants. In A. D. 1419 Aubhala Rāja Oḍeyar caused a *śāsana* of temple endowments and Brahman endowments to be written. These were given as gifts for the decorations and festivals of the god Harihara "at the meritorious time of Śivarātri". The record which contains the details relating to the above endowments also tells us about "the gauḍa's *koḍage mānya* granted to Singe Gauḍa's son Rāma Gauḍa,—Maddagirihalli, and under the Voḍina channel space for 2000 areca trees, with nāḍ-gauḍike in each village".¹ Koḍage mānyas were also granted to temples. Narasaṇṇa Nāyaka's......Hochi Nāyaka and Kōṭipa Nāyaka, according to an inscription dated A. D. 1497, granted a koḍage mānya for the Tippūr temple.² As regards the other kind of mānya lands, we have the following in a record dated A. D. 1525. In that year the Eḷavaṅka (Eḷahanka) nāḍ-prabhu Kempayya Gauḍa granted the Pura maṭha śāsana as follows:—"The Chennapura village (? built by) Haima Gauḍa, belonging to our Eleyūr-sime, have we granted to you as a puri mānya, together with all rights (specified)".³