Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c11.12

c11.12

The village assemblies possessed the right of disposing of or acquiring lands or other kinds of property in the name and on behalf of the village. Thus the assembly of Ukkal alias Vikramābharaṇa-caturvēdimaṅgalam sold the village of Araśāṇipālai for six hundred kāśus to an individual of Śērrūr in Teṅkarai Uyyakoṇḍanvaḷa nāḍu, a subdivision of the Cōḷamaṇḍalam;⁶ the same assembly a few years later sold the village of Iṭṭigaipaṭṭu for 400 paṇams to certain individuals.⁷ According to a record at Āvaḍaiyārkōyil in the Tanjore district the assembly of the village of Tirupperundurai made a gift of two pieces of land as tirunāmattukkāṇi to the temple of Śōḷapāṇḍya Viṇṇagar Emberumāṉār in the same village.⁸