Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.12

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In about A. D. 1180 a fight took place regarding the boundary of Kōravaṅgala and Dudda in the reign of the Hoysala king Vira Ballāḷa II. Baramōja and Masaṇōja, sons of Biṭṭiyoja, fell in the fight. "All the Brahmans of the immemorial agrahāra of Śāntigrāma and the farmers raised the stone to their memory."³ Leṅkaṇa Nāyaka of Karimale in A. D. 1223, as related elsewhere, captured the cows of Malaval and departed. Māva-bōva of Malavaḷḷi opposed him, recovered the cows but died in the attempt. "The *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Nigalūr Bommi-Dēvarasa, with the farmers and subjects of Malavaḷḷi, approving of Chikka-bōva's elder brother Māva-bōva's service, granted land (specified) for him as a *nettaru goḍage*."¹ All the *mahājanas* of Kūḍalūr alias Rāja-rāja-chatur-vēdimaṅgalam in Kiḷalai-nāḍu of Muḍi-goṇḍa-Śōḷa-vaḷanāḍu, bestowed, according to an illegible inscription dated A. D. 1232, upon...the office of *gāmuṇḍa* and granted to him according to former custom certain specified lands. The epigraph does not tell us the reason of their benevolence.² In A. D. 1239 Jakkayya, son of Bomma Gauḍa, fell in a fight about the boundary of Bāgaḍe and Kittanakere. His father and his elder brother set up a *viragal* in his name. "And all the Brahmans of Vijaya-Narasimhapura, which is Bāgaḍe, being pleased", granted certain specified land as an *umbali* to his descendants.³ All the Brahmans of Nallūr, in about A. D. 1247, measured the land (in their village ?) and made the following order—"For twenty-four years no one of the twelve groups of five may reduce the fixed rate."⁴