Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c23.s1.24

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That the people were not unacquainted with house-sites is evident from two records dated Śaka 1343 (A. D. 1421-2) and Śaka 1348, Parābhava (A. D. 1426-7) respectively. The former which belongs to the reign of Vira Bhūpati Oḍēyar, informs us that a gift of a house-site was made to a private individual.⁶ The latter contains the information that in the reign of Kumāra Dēva Rāya (II), eight house-sites in Jayaṅgoṇḍachōḷamaṇḍalam, being declared lost to the stānattār of Māḍanpākkam, and that fresh sites were given to them in the street of the Kaikkōḷar of the same town.⁷