Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.41

v2.c24.s1.41

The Brahmans of the same immemorial agrahāra Hariharapura gave further expression to their sense of solidarity when in A. D. 1318 they gave a stone śāsana to the treasurer Kāvaṇṇa's son Rāmaṇṇa embodying the following clauses in their agreement. "The land in our village which Hariyaṇṇa and others (named), being unable to manage or to pay the original fixed rent and the extra taxes, transferred to us with a vōle,—that land, we having received from Rāmaṇṇa eight gadyāṇa for kaṭṭuge, kāṇike, Rāmaṇṇa will pay to the Brahmans for the land one gadyāṇa a year in the month of Pushya and will manage the land (specified); the Brahmans themselves will defray any tax imposed by the palace. That we should pay such taxes imposed by our village seems not to be the custom. This land Rāmaṇṇa may mortgage, sell or give away. Any dispute relating thereto will be settled by the Brahmans. To this land there is no reason to connect the northern field : that the Brahmans themselves will themselves enjoy. The land is granted to Rāmaṇṇa and his posterity."1