Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.85

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In A. D. 1007 during the times of Rājarāja Dēva, the members of the assembly of Periya-Maḷavūr "having assembled without a vacancy in the assembly, in the temple of the god Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Śōḷa-Viṇṇagar-āḷvār at Nigarili-Śōḷapuram", granted specified land for the daily offerings of the god. It is interesting to observe that these members of the assembly of Periya-Maḷavūr alias Rājēndrasiṃha-chaturvēdimaṅgaḷam, gave the *śāsana* for the above god "binding ourselves to plough and cultivate the lands ourselves, and to bring to the temple and measure out fully, with the *marakkāl* named Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Śōḷan, a certain quantity (specified) of clean paddy."² The citizens of Nigarili-Śōḷapuram also gave a grant of land to the same temple in the same year.³