Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.625
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.625
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*Vetti*, Tel. Tam. Cf *Toti*, above. The lowest village servant paid usually by a grant of land in grain, or, nowadays, in money. A *Vetti* discharges the lowest offices, sweeping the *chalettri*, keeping the threshing floor clean, measuring the grain, and, according to some authorities, employed to burn the dead bodies. He is also the messenger of the Patel, and acts as a guide to public officer and travellers. The word *Vetti* is derived from *vetti*, which is from *Vetta-kiradu*, to cut or dig, as a way or road. (*E. R.* for 1913, p. 120; *W.*, p. 540; *B. & C.* III., p. 1500).