Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.80

v2.c24.s2.80

The great minister Gaureya Daṇṇāyaka with all the Gauḍas, Seṭṭis and others (not named), granted specified lands for the offerings of the god Varadarāja, to the Brahmans of Vāgaṭa, which is Bhāgīrathapura.⁴ Certain Seṭṭis (named) together with "the existing Brahmans" (many named) of the agrahāra Viṣṇusamudra, also called Kereyasaṅthe, caused a bhōga-maṇṭapa to be erected in front of the temple of the god Janārdhana, and granted it to all the wet land under the Chāmanahaḷḷi pond, "except what had previously been granted,—and of the land under the water course from the eastern sluice, one half to the temple and one-fourth to the Brahmans."⁵