Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.47

v2.c22.s3.47

The same account informs us that the chief man of the village Pugalur, named Udiyan Sethopathi, (Uḍaiyan Sētupati?), safely escorted the chief *guru* of Muttu Kṛiṣṇappa Nāyaka to Rāmēśvaram, and received in recognition of his services, grants of land, villages, honorary dress and various ornaments as presents.³ For the insignia of a chief man of a village we may refer to an inscription dated A. D. 1472 which mentions that Iduvaṇi Baliya Gauḍa's son Haivaṇṇa Nāyaka, the foremost man in Ānevaḷige in Nagiraṭhāvu, was entitled to possess an umbrella, betel bag, lamp-stand pillar, ornamental coin (*aṅka-teṅke*), and others (*muntāda-tēja-mānyavanu*).⁴