Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s2.37

v2.c22.s2.37

From a stone inscription assigned to the year A. D. 1406, or thereabouts, we know that there was another kind of *koḍage* grants called the *dayirya koḍage*. The record, the date of which "is altogether wrong," informs us that "by order of Harihara Rāya II, the minister Yaḷarasa Oḍeyar granted to Virappa of Haṭṭiyūr in Hulliyūr-nāḍ, the Toṛavasamudra village in Hullūr-nāḍ as a *dayirya koḍage*, free of all imposts.² In all likelihood this kind of grant may have been made for some kind of gallant service rendered on the battlefield or in the course of a cow-raid, although we have definite evidence of the method by which they recognized the merits of brave persons in war or in a cow-fight. We are also uncertain about the nature of *satige koḍage*. In A. D. 1522 Elapa Nāyaka, son of Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya's servant Ellappaṇṇa, granted Kagere in the Bidure-sīme as a *satige koḍage* to Annaṇa Gauḍa.³