Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.76

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The Pañchāḷas and the Seṭṭis too could express their devotion to the local gods by giving jointly gifts of land. All the Pañchāḷas of the Yeṇṇe-nāḍ, in A. D. 1398, in order to provide for the necessaries of worship and decoration for the god Anilēśvara, presented an offering at the rate of one haṇa in the several villages.¹ The Rāya Seṭṭis of the customs dues by both roads granted eleven varāha eighteen haṇa realized from the old goḍage, included in the customs dues paid by the oil mongers as oil mill tax, to provide for the perpetual lamp of the god Chennakēśava of Aneganakere. The epigraph, however, contains the information that it was granted by "order of Lakkaṇṇa Oḍeyar" in A. D. 1399.² In A. D. 1475 certain Gauḍas (named) brought land (specified for forty-five gadyāṇa from Kāñchi Śambhu Dēva's son Gōvinda Dēva, for the god Kēśava of Kāsaraguppe in Eḍe-nāḍ in Chandragutti.³