Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.15

v2.c24.s1.15

Evidently the Brahmans could also unite for purposes of settling land revenue questions. Nāyaga Nāyaka, son of Hiriya Bomma, in A. D. 1277, fell in a cow raid in Nelkudure. Pleased with his bravery, all the *ūr-oḍeyas* of Nelkudure, Jaya Dēva Daṇṇāyaka and all the subjects granted specified land as a *nettaru-goḍage*.⁵ In A. D. 1297 Dātiya Sōmaiya Daṇṇāyaka's son Śinga(ya) Daṇṇāyaka together with the inhabitants of Periya-nāḍu in Poṇmaṇiga-nāḍu, and the (?) officers at the door of Śingaya Daṇṇāyaka, remitted certain specified taxes in the villages which were the property of the god Dāmōdara.⁶