Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.105

v2.c24.s2.105

The Mahāsāmantādhipati Śipati Nāyaka's son Soṇṇeya Nāyaka, according to a Tamil record dated A. D. 1360, together with the inhabitants of Amḍadakki-nāḍu, including the superintendents of the nāḍu, Pāpaśiyar and Śokkiśiyar and three others (named), granted certain specified lands, as a kuḍaṅgai, to Śānāṇḍai. The epigraph contains the signature of the nāḍu, Seṭṭēsuram-uḍaiyar, and that of Nāyakkar, Allāḷanātha, and of the accountant Nilappar.³ In A. D. 1369 the Mahāsāmantādhipati Soṇṇeya Nāyaka and the inhabitants of the nāḍu, including Noṇappa...made a grant of a village, the name of which is effaced in the record, but which was near Vēmamaṅgaḷa, as a kuḍaṅgai. The grant contains "the signature of the inhabitants of the nāḍu—Śrī-Bhairavanātha."⁴ Another effaced inscription dated A. D. 1397 tells us that a number of Heggaḍes (named) made a grant of the Kallakoḍagi land (specified) of Hollavāni to some one whose name is lost in the record.⁵ In A. D. 1407 all the people of the two Maṇḍu-nāḍ