Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.16

v2.c24.s1.16

The carpenters, blacksmiths, goldsmiths and all the Vīra-Pañchāḷas of the four nāḍs, belonging to the Jagipu Maṭha of the Hiriya Kāḷa Maṭha of Dōrasamudra, granted a number of taxes to some one whose name is effaced in the inscription.¹ All the Brahmans of the immemorial agrahāra of Nēmaṭṭi and a number of Gauḍas (named), "uniting, in order to provide for the gauḍike of Chaṭṭanahalli in their nāḍ", purchased land (specified) and granted it, in about A. D. 1314, to Chenneya Nāyaka's grandson Śaṅkappa as an umbaḷi.²