Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.44

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In A.D. 1417, when Linganna Oḍeyar was protecting the Āraga kingdom, a number of Heggaḍes (named) of Sātalige in Āraga, sold to Dēvarasa's son (Gōvaṇṇa) certain specified land for thirty-four *hon*, in order to provide for a marriage.¹ The sale of land in A. D. 1417, by certain Heggaḍes of Mēguravaḷi in Maduvaḷige-nāḍ has been narrated above.² Those of the *nāḍs* and three cities of the Āraga Eighteen Kaṃpaṇa, agreeing together, gave to Baṅkarasa's son Viṭṭhaṇṇa, a stone *śāsana* of a sale of land in Beḷali and Kiṭṭadūr in A.D. 1415.³ According to a defaced inscription of about A. D. 1420, certain persons bought land (in Niḍuvaḷa-nāḍ and Kōḍūra?) for thirty-five *hon*, and formed it into a *agrahāra*. And Boppa Heggaḍe gave the land to Lakkarasa Oḍeyar, freed from the rent of sixty *hon* (*ā Lakkarasa Oḍeyarige hiraṇyōdaka kraya dāna dhārā-pūrvakavāgi...koṭṭa...sōtra guṭṭiyega śāsana pramāṇa-paṭṭe*).⁴ In A. D. 1427, certain Heggaḍes (named) of Sātalige in the Āraga-vēṇṭhe and all the people of the *nāḍ* gave to Hariyaka Nāyakitti of Hebbaraḍi, a deed of sale (*kraya dānā-patrada karamav*) for thirty salege of land in Aramvaḷḷi for eighty-five *varāha*. This generous lady on the same date, gave an *ōle* of the grant and presented the land to Amarēśvara Tirtha Śrīpāda, for a *chchatra* in connection with his *maṭha*.⁵