Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.48

v2.c24.s1.48

In about A. D. 1333 during the administration of the Mahā-prabhu Toya Siṅgeya Daṇṇāyaka, all the Brahmans of the agrahāra Hiriya-Narasimhapura, also called Karuviḍi, agreeing among themselves, resolved to divide the estate equally among the families, setting up a stone in (the temple) of Hoysaleśvara. Collecting into one all the garden, wet and dry land, and all other parts of Haḷḷiyūr and Hiriyūr, they divided them into 125 shares. (The details and regulations of their distribution are stated.) The epigraph runs thus: "Whoso enjoying land under this śāsana transgresses the regulations is excommunicated from the thirty-two thousand and is a traitor to the agrahāra." "Whoso transgresses the regulations of the śāsana will come under the order of Vīra Ballāḷa Dēvarasa and of Toya Siṅgeya Daṇṇāyaka".¹