Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s2.31

v2.c22.s2.31

The remaining four kinds of koḍage gifts are now to be enumerated. The most common grant under this heading is that related to the kaṭṭu koḍage. This was generally given to those who made agricultural improvements. They were usually called kaṭṭu koḍage or kere koḍage, although instances are not wanting to show that similar gifts were made for the same purpose in a dharma-śāsana. In A.D. 1428 Lakkaṇṇa Oḍeyar granted to Singarasa's son Annadāta a dharma-śāsana embodying the gift of rice-lands and dry fields below the tank built by Danakani Dēvi, who was evidently the wife of Annadāta, in the Bēlūr-sime belonging to the Muḷuvāyi kingdom, with all rights, free of all imposts.⁴ In this grant the name kaṭṭu koḍage is not mentioned. Kaṭṭu koḍage was also granted by private individuals. Hiriyaṇṇa Gauḍa granted to Golamayya......a kaṭṭu koḍage in Māradehaḷḷi in about A. D. 1577.⁵ From a record dated about A. D. 1698, we may infer that kaṭṭu koḍage was also known as kere koḍage. In that year Rāuta Rāya caused to be written and gave to the Holeyas of Kaltuṭanahaḷḷi a kere koḍage śāsana for having restored the Doḍḍagāvanahaḷḷi tank.⁶