Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.57

v2.c24.s2.57

We may ascertain a few facts in connection with the method by which mortgages on land were released. In A. D. 1539 Chavuḍi Seṭṭi of Gērasoppe released the mortgage on the land of Karṇbhayya, son of Agaṇi Bommayyaṇṇa (Gērasoppeya Chavuḍi-saṭiru Agaṇi-Bommayyaṇṇa maga Kambhayyanu tanna kshētra aḍahāg irlāgi Chavuḍi-saṭiru adanu biḍisi koṭṭudakke); and the latter commemorated it by promising to carry on certain specified charities in front of the god Tyāgada-Brahma.² Chavuḍi Seṭṭi, we may incidentally note, made many other people equally happy in the same year by releasing them from the mortgage on their lands. These in return gave charity-deeds (dharma-sādhana) to him.³