Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.138

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In A.D. 1332 the Mahāsāmantādhipati Vaiyichcha Gauḍa, Niraga Dēva and Koṅga Irāme Nāyaka, officers under Siṅgeya Daṇṇāyaka together with the inhabitants of Pulliyur-nāḍu, including certain prominent Seṭṭis (named), granted to KaṟṟarKāvatta Dēva's son Śiyaṇam certain specified lands as a kuḍaṅgai.⁴ The inhabitants of Turaivaḷi-nāḍu and Vīra Ballāḷa Dēva's son, (Śinge)ya Daṇṇāyaka granted, in A. D. 1337, certain specified lands in the same nāḍu to certain persons (named) at a specified rate of so many shares.⁵ Another Tamil record mentions that in A. D. 1340 Teṅgal Vallappa Daṇṇāyakkar and the inhabitants of Kaivāra-nāḍu granted specified land in the village of Nelavāyppaḷḷi and shares in Kaivāra-nāḍu to Periya-Gōmāḷi and Kariya Gōmāḷi Dāśu, having set up boundary stones marked with the discus (of Viṣṇu).⁶ In the next year the inhabitants of Amabaḍakki-nāḍu including Pāppiśiyar, the superintendent of the nāḍu, and three others (named), as related in another Tamil inscription of A. D. 1341, granted the village of Attigapaḷḷi in the same nāḍu, to Tēvapperumāl-tādar and Pe...dan as a gift.⁷ A Tamil record dated A. D. 1342 tells us that Dēvappar (descent stated) and the inhabitants of Pulliyūr-nāḍu including Tuṛavar-nāyan, Tambiravi Seṭṭiyār, granted to Siyaṇan, son of Tuṛvar Śāvukka Dēvar, the superintendent of Pulliyūr-nāḍu, certain specified lands as a kuḍaṅgai.¹ All the subjects and farmers of Eḷahaṅka-nāḍ and the Mahāśāvantādhipati (with other titles) Chikka Bayiraya Nāyaka's son Honnamarāya Nāyaka granted, in the same year, specified land at Jakkūr to the Nāḍ-Sēnabōva Allāḷa, as a sarva-mānya koḍage.² In the same year A. D. 1432 the inhabitants of the nāḍu (Periya-nāḍu of Pulliyūr), including Tuṛvar Nāḍa Seṭṭi's son Māri Seṭṭi, and a few more named, granted land, the details of which are effaced, to all the mahājanas of Ivaṭṭam alias Varadarāja-caturvēdimangalam.³ The Mahāśāvantādhipati Chikka Kallaya Nāyaka together with all the farmers of the Kāḍagōḍi-sthala in the Toṛavala-vitti (vṛtti ?) of the southern part of Saṇi-nāḍ in the same year, granted the rice fields and dry fields of Haṭṭandūr (specified), as a sarvamānya koḍage to the nāḍ-sēnabōva Perumbāchari Sātuśāva Allāḷa.⁴