Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.70

v2.c24.s1.70

For having repaired village tanks, the people conferred on charitable persons land as a *kodaṅgai*. The great minister Tamma Śiṅgaya Daṇṇāyaka, according to a record dated A. D. 1314, together with the inhabitants of Pulliyur-nāḍu, granted to Dāmōdara Sōmaiya certain specified lands as a *kuḍaṅgai* for having built the Kaṟkirai tank in Pulliyur-nāḍu, which had been breached and gone to ruins.¹