Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.62

v2.c24.s1.62

According to a record dated about A. D. 1221 Chaṭṭayya Perumāḷa Dēva was about to expend 100 hon, "on account of unforeseen calamity", on the first paddy land south-east of the fields of the immemorial agrahāra Erekere, when "all the Brahmans belonging to it said that if he would build steps to the Dāsi-śeṭṭi tank, which was a very much superior place, it would be as if he had re-established their agrahāra. Accordingly, accepting this as a great favour, he allotted those 100 hon to the work of that tank. And all the Brahmans, being filled with joy, gave to the tank the name of Perumāḷa-samudra, and made to Chaṭṭayya Perumāḷa Dēva a free gift of 160 poles of garden land under the tank, accepting from him the prescribed worship of their feet".⁴