Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.58

v2.c24.s1.58

In about A. D. 1190 certain persons (named) made grants of land to provide for maintaining the waste weir of the old tank, evidently in Arasiyakere, when Tippa was managing the customs of the same place.¹ When Kūsadallayya of Notta built a tank to the west of the breached tank of Hirevāḷahaḷḷi in Nirugunda-nāḍ, in A. D. 1196, Mallayya Nāyaka of Bāgavāḷa together with a number of others (named), gave him eight salage of rice-land under the tank as kere-goḍage.² In about A. D. 1211 the Brahmans of Nāraṇagaṭṭa channel, "having agreed that besides the water of the small tank for the rice-land of the Viṣṇu temple, no water can be allowed from the Nāraṇagaṭṭa channel," granted for the local god for bringing water according to the shares a fixed rate of one gadyāṇa a year.³