Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.5

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Patriotic and religious motives prompted the people sometimes to make joint endowments to temples. Lakkarasa of Sādali, together with the nāḍ-prabhus (named) of Kōḷāla in Nikarili-Chōḷa-maṇḍala, in A. D. 1384, made a grant of the lands belonging to Chikka-Hayūr in Kōḷāla-nāḍ, for the offerings and decorations of the god of the Mūlsthāna, which is Kailāsa, in order that increase of life, health, and wealth, and universal empire might be to the champion over the Kaṇṭikāra Rāya, Nāgaṇṇa Oḍeyar's son Dēpaṇṇa Oḍeyar.¹ In the same year and with the same object, but this time referring to Nāgaṇṇa Oḍeyar himself and to his son, the nāḍ-mahāprabhus of Kōḷāla, called in this record the southern Dvārāvati-paṭṭaṇa, together with the same Adhikāri Lakkarasappa, Mukaṇṇa-Jiya, Sōvaṇṇa-Jiya, Yiri Seṭṭi, and all the farmers and subjects being agreed, made a grant of all the lands (specified) belonging to the Haḷeya-Kottanūr village in Kōḷāla-nāḍ.² In about A. D. 1489, the Kālesāle people gave the Tāḷekere village to Kambāḷa Siddere Voḍeyar, in order that dharma might to be to the ruler Narasinga Rāya Mahārāja.³ Kontamarasa and Dēvarasa with the Gauḍas and subjects, made petition to some one, whose name is effaced in the record, and (the result seems to have been that?) Rāvi Seṭṭi made a grant of Areḍāsahaḷḷi to an unspecified person, in A. D. 1535, in order that merit ought to be to the Emperor Achyuta Rāya's son-in-law Raghupati Rāja Mahā-arasu.⁴ Another incomplete record dated A. D. 1553 informs us that the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Ayaṇa Viraliṅga Dēva,... the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara... the Gauḍas of the village belonging to... and others, granted a śāsana to Gōsikeṛe Liṅga Viraya's son Ayaṇa Madakare Liṅga Virayya with the right of collecting certain specified dues in the villages belonging to the Guḍḍa-sime.⁵