Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.173

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All the Brahmans of Bhaṭṭa-ratnākara, which was Nāgamaṅgala, in about A.D. 1549 made for the god Virabhadra of the same town a grant of the first five paṇa received every year of that temple; and all the remaining dues were granted by Bokki Seṭṭi, son of Bāldali Seṭṭi.² In A. D. 1560 the Brahmans of Belgoḍ agrahāra, also called Narasimhapura, in the Fifty-nāḍ of the Āraga kingdom, granted specified lands for the offerings of the god Lakshmī-Nārāyaṇa, and also gave fourteen (gadyāṇa) for the chhatra of the same temple.³ According to an effaced inscription assigned to the year A. D. 1633, the Brahmans of the agrahāra...maśavapura and the Brahmans of Bayirāpura and all the people of Sōmi...made over to Anantappa Oḍeyar certain rice fields under the big tank of Bayirāpura, for some purpose not mentioned in the epigraph.⁴