Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.136

v2.c24.s2.136

The goodwill existing between the Brahmans and other sections of the people, which is proved in the numerous epigraphs we have cited, is also seen in a record dated A. D. 1374. This relates that all the Brahmans of Honnavaḷi gave to Bomma Gauḍa and other Gauḍas (named) and all the farmers and subjects of Halukūr a śāsana for an exchange (*parivartana-śāsana*) of 470 poles of land in Bhagavati-ghaṭṭa, a hamlet of Honnavaḷi, for the same extent of land in Būdana-hāḷu, attached to Tulikeyahaḷḷi, a hamlet of Halukūr.⁴ In A. D. 1377 all the Gauḍas together with some others, whose names are effaced in the inscription, "agreeing among themselves, from affection for Īśvara, granted Huttadahaḷḷi to the house-minister (*maneya-pradhāna*) of Virūpaṇṇa Oḍeyar, Rāmarāsa. He however "at the time of the eclipse of the sun, from love to his *iṣṭa-dēvatā*" formed it into an agrahāra called Hariharapura, and bestowed it on Brahmans.⁵