Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.153

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The Mahāsāvantādhipati Kūḍalūr Mañchaya Nāyaka, with all the farmers and subjects of Koḷanalūr-sthala, in A. D. 1404, made to all the Brahmans of the immemorial agrahāra Sarvajña-Bhāskarapura which is Koḷanalūr, a grant of the Uḷēnahalli village, with a tank in the low ground.⁴ In about A. D. 1405 all the nāḍ-śeṭṭis agreeing among themselves, made a grant of the Bālagārakoppa rented-land in Bekkase village (boundaries specified) to the nāḍ people of the Eighteen Kaṃpaṇa and those of the three cities. And they granted Bāḷagāra, to Rāyappa's grandson Viraṇṇa Oḍeyar. He made over Bāḷagāra, giving it the name Ayōdhyāpura to the learned Sulabhatīrtha Śrīpāda.¹ An inscription dated Śaka 1328 (A. D. 1405-6) relates that the assembly of 4,000 men of Tribhuvanamahādēvi-Caturvēdi-maṅgaḷam, a bramhadēya in Niḍuvil-maṇḍalam, a subdivision of Rājādhirāja-vaḷa-nāḍu, gave a village as a kāṇiyākshi gift to Āḷavandāṉ Bhaṭṭar alias Uḷagauḍaiya-Perumāḷ, of Perum-barrapuliyūr.² In A. D. 1408 all the farmers and subjects of the Āraga Eighteen Kampaṇa and those of the three cities agreeing among themselves, made a grant of (lands) in the Sūrali village to the Brahmans (named), after having turned it into an agrahāra called Nāgasamudra.³ Bomma Dēva Heggaḍe and the Brahmans of Hārandūr, as related is an effaced inscription of A. D. 1416, made a grant of lands (specified) to Abhaḷi Bhaṭṭa, son of Channappa Bhaṭṭa.⁴