Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.50

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Rights were also given to the first settlers in a new town. This was obviously to aid the building of new towns. Kṛiṣṇappa Nāyaka's Agent Viṭhṭhaṇa Nāyaka was holding the *pārupatya* of the Bāgūr-sīme in A. D. 1554, in the reign of the Emperor Sadāśiva Rāya. The inscription relates that the outer *pēṭe* (evidently of Bāgūr) being in ruins, Narasimmaiya of the Customs petitioned to Viṭhṭhaṇa Nāyaka, "whereupon he sent for Liṅgaṇa Gauḍa and many others (named) all the subjects, and directed them to have the *peṭe* built, giving it another name of Kṛṣṇāpura after Eṛe-Kṛṣṇappa Nāyakayya and populate it. Those who settle there will be free of all taxes for one year from the time they come; after that they will not only be included in the family agreement, but if they have taken possession, we and the subjects will give up (our claim)." (*bandanthā-vakkalige vokkalu banda vondu-varusha sarvamānya munde vokkala voḍambaḍikeyalu biṭṭukoṭṭa pramāṇav allade anubhava māḍidare nāvu prajegaḷu pariharisi koḍuvevu*).¹