Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s2.58

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Umbaḷi gifts were also called gauḍike-daṇḍige-umbaḷi, or merely gauḍike rights. According to a copper-plate dated A. D. 1486, "by order of the king" Narasiṅga Rāya, Gaṅge Gauḍa was granted the gauḍike of Hejāji, which he had built, and of other villages (named) for some service not mentioned in the record.¹ In A. D. 1528 Rāma Bhaṭṭa's... granted Kāmana-haḷḷi belonging to Aramala-sthaḷa (boundaries specified) to Akkimaṅgala Tammappa Gauḍa as a gauḍike-daṇḍige-umbaḷi, free of all imposts.² A stone inscription dated A. D. 1554 informs us that Niḍugal Kōmāra Timmaṇṇa Nāyaka granted to Tumukuṇṭe... Dharmagōḍu Gauḍa a gauḍike for having built a fort for the village, excavated channels, and restored the village of Tumukuṇṭe, together with the āya dammas, horse, umbrella, and lands (specified) as satige mānya.³ Similar improvements must have been made by Arasiyakere Seṭigoṇḍa Gauḍa, who received from Niḍugal Timmaṇṇa Nāyaka, in A. D. 1560, the gauḍike of Arasiyakere together with land (specified) as a mānya to be enjoyed as a kāṇāchi.⁴