Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.83

v2.c24.s2.83

In A. D. 1522 Mācha Gauḍa and other Gauḍas with the principal Nānā-Dēśi Seṭṭis of the ninety-six Thousand, granted certain specified lands for the Hoḷalakeṛe-vṛtti, together with a number of specified dues on articles at the fair. For the god Mahēśvara they also granted specified dues from the fair.⁶ According to an epigraph dated in Śaka 1445 (A. D. 1523-4) it was covenanted by the inhabitants of Valla-nāḍu that the Vēḷḷāḷa tenants of the three villages Pālaikkuḍi, Kālaṅguḍi and Kiḷinallūr should pay their obligations and services to the temple of Aruṅgaḷanāthār.¹