Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.24

v2.c24.s2.24

How a sale-deed was effected is told in a record dated Śaka 1296 (A. D. 1374-5), of the times of "the illustrious Ommaṇa-uḍaiyar, the son of the illustrious Kambaṇa-uḍaiyar". "Whereas the great people of Śambukula-Perumāḷ-agaram, alias Rājagambhīra-chaturvēdimaṅgaḷam, (situation in the Tamil land, described) gave to the illustrious Viṣṇu-Kambaḷi Nāyaka ...of Alasu-nāḍu, within Tuḷu-nāḍu, a document (pramāṇa) about the cost of land (described in detail)—We, the great people, (hereby, declare, that we) having thus agreed, gave a document about the costs of land to the illustrious Viṣṇu-Kambaḷi-Nāyaka. At the pleasure of these great people. I, Aṅkārai Śrīdhara-Bhaṭṭa of Śambukula-Perumāḷ-agaram wrote this document about the cost of land; this is (my) signature".¹