Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.95
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s1.95
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Grants of land were often made in the presence of the people. Thus in A. D. 1174 the Heggaḍes of Arasiyakere, Rēchaṇa, Kētamalla, and Muttaṇa Māra, in the presence of the subjects and farmers, gave land as a gift for the decorations of the god Areya Śaṅkara. The townsmen (or merchants) granted a pot of rice to Mādhava-jiya, of the Kālamukhas, evidently a priest of the same temple (at Hagariṭṭige).²