Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.26

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We may give some examples of joint-sale by the citizens of Vijayanagara. The Heggaḍes (named) of Neṇaṅgi-nāḍ gave to Satyatīrtha Śrīpāda of the Muniyūr Maṭha and his disciple of Vaikuṇṭha Tīrtha a deed of sale of the Maṇṇaraya land in their nāḍ for sixty-two honnu in A.D. 1388.² The Heggaḍes of the same nāḍ sold the Arangodigi land to Lakṣhmi Nārāyaṇa Dēva of the same maṭha for seventy gadyāṇa in A. D. 1393.³ Mādhava Bhaṭṭa (descent stated), Nāchchiyappa and others (named), the sthānikas of the temple of Śrī-Mūlasthānam Uḍaiyar at Tendaṭṭumaḍai-vilāgam, "having agreed among ourselves", sold their kṣhētra to Śiruchchōmaṇa (descent stated), a sthānika of the temple of Śomīśuram-uḍaiyār at Śūrūr, in A. D. 1394, "having received full payment", with all details of the tract of land which formed a part of their dēvadāna possession.⁴ The Brahmans of...paṭṭana, in Āraga, bought the Hālamuttūr village in the Sāntalige-nāḍ, through agents, at the price of the day, for 300 varāha, and divided the rent to be paid among themselves. The deed of sale on stone (dāna-śilā-śāsana) seems to have been drawn on behalf of the Ananta Bhaṭṭa (descent stated). The same epigraph relates that "the people of the Eighteen Kaṃpaṇa divided the rent among themselves, and agreed to pay whatever dues might arise."¹