Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c11.36

c11.36

But in the later period of Vijayanagar history these villages do not appear to have enjoyed such wide powers. They had to get the sanction of the imperial officer in the locality before they could dispose of the lands of certain individuals. Thus at Śērmādēvi in the Tinnevelly district we find that in A.D. 1544 Rāmappa Nāyuḍu along with a few others and the learned men of Cēramahādēvi, Ēlāpuram and Narasāpuram met together and assigned the lands and house of a certain Yeruvadi Timmayya, an outcaste of the Brahman community, to the temple of Tiruveṅgaḷanātha.²⁵