Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.147

v2.c24.s2.147

The Brahmans of Elase and Kuppugaḍḍe in the Gutti Eighteen Kampaṇa, together with all the Gauḍas, in A. D. 1395, granted of their own accord Elambaḷḷi in the Nāgarakaṇḍa-nāḍ to Nara Nārā(ya)ṇa Dēva, son of the Treasurer Dharaṇi Dēva, in the presence of the god Saptanātha of Gōve.⁶ All the Brahmans and subjects of a place, which is effaced in an inscription dated A. D. 1396 but which was in the Āraga kingdom, together with all the nāḍ people of Maduvankanāḍ, agreeing among themselves, granted to Mayyaṇṇa's son Virūpaṇṇa a gift of land (specified)¹ All the cultivators of the three cities of all the nāḍs of the Eighteen Kaṃpaṇa of the Āraga-veṇṭhe, "agreeing among themselves, with one accord", made a grant of lands to the learned governor Viṭṭhaṇṇa Oḍeyar in six villages in the Maḍavaḍi-nāḍ, having purchased them "at the price of the day", 500 varāha, and having obtained "the consent of the people of Meṇasūr and Dānamūla. We may incidentally note that the donee is described thus: "the recipient of the ascetic virtues (yajaña-yājana-adhyayana-adhyāpana-dāna-pratigraha-shaṭ - karma-niyatar aha), restrained by the six rites, follower of the Rik-śākhā, Viṭṭhaṇṇa Oḍeyar of the Bharadvāja-gōtra".²