Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.112

v2.c24.s1.112

That the traditions of solidarity of the early rulers and their people lived till the year of the foundation of the Vijayanagara Empire is proved by a record dated A. D. 1346 which deals with the activities of citizens and officials. The inhabitants of Ambaḍakki-nāḍu, including Pāppiśiyar and six others (named), and the *Mahāsāmantādhipati* Mañjaya Nāyaka's son Aṅkaya Nāyaka granted all the wet and dry lands belonging to Ānur of their *nāḍu*, to provide for the offerings in the temple of Irājēndra-Śōḷa-Tekkiśvaram-Uḍaiya-Nāyaṇār at Śengai. The grant contains the signature of the *nāḍu-Seṭṭiśvara-dēvar*, that of the *nāḍ* accountant Nilappan, and of a few more persons.⁴