Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.72

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The harmony that existed between the different religious sections of the people is specially seen in the epigraphs relating to the activities of the Brahmans, the Sthānikas and the Jainas. In A. D. 1368 certain Gauḍas (named) of Uyyanapaḷḷi together with all the Brahmans of Kēśavapura or Nagara and other Gauḍas (named) of various villages, granted from each family the petty taxes, the tank and lands of Mātruhaḷḷi, to provide for the service of the god Anilēśvara of Haradanahaḷḷi. The concluding lines of the epigraph tell us that "agreeing among themselves, and of their own accord, in the presence of the officer Siriyaṇṇa, they granted them, with presentation of a coin and water, to the god Anilēśvara".² According to an effaced inscription dated about A. D. 1372, all the Brahmans of a certain agrahāra agreeing among themselves made (an agreement) regarding a loan of 150 gadyāṇa to be given to their ryots from the treasury of the god Rāmanātha.³ In A. D. 1377 all the Brahmans of the two Kannūr agrahāras in Hārahaḷi-nāḍ and of Eḍihaḷḷi and Gāvaḷūr, and of the seventy villages, and all the Gauḍas and chiefs of the nāḍ, made a grant of rice land (specified) belonging to the Gautama village for the god Narasiṁha of the hill of the same locality. The same record informs us that Kaṇḍamani Rāmaya Nāyaka's son Taḷa Nāyaka and the Brahmans of Hārahaḷi-nāḍ, having made application to all the nāḍ chiefs, transferred it with pouring of water.⁴