Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.38

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It was perhaps to avert common legal disputes that all the Brahmans of Agunda on the occasion of the construction of the Kāliya-gaṭṭa of Saṇḍa by the minister Sōmaiya Nāyaka, enacted a rule to the following effect: "Whatever trouble arises about these, those Brahmans and the farmers and chiefs of Neluvalige will dispose of it." The persons referred to here were those in whose presence the Brahmans of Agunda gave Sōmaiya Nāyaka a grant of various specified lands. They were the Brahmans of the immemorial agrahāra Tumbegana Hasaūr, Eḍevoḷalu, Sālūr, Bannivūr, Biriguñji and Koṭṭurhaḷḷi, all the Brahmans of the ninety-six villages, all the chiefs of Neluvalināḍ, Bayiche Gauḍa of Puṇyadahaḷḷi, and the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Tammarasa, the ruler of Hosaguṇḍa.¹ Of a similar nature is the regulation that was made by the Brahmans of the Hariharapura agrahāra, also called Keḷḷaṅgere, in A. D. 1297, to the effect that they would dispose of any dispute arising as to the lands of the village Sūleyakere, which they had sold, with all rights except koḍage, to Heggaḍe Jayitaṇṇa's son Ayyaṇṇa.²