Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c11.47

c11.47

But these local bodies do not seem to have been left uncontrolled by the government, for according to an inscription at Tiruvāmattūr in the South Arcot district, the nāṭṭār of the place gave an undertaking to the official committee of management (*rājakārya bhaṇḍāra*) that they would thenceforth allow certain privileges to the three classes of artisans, viz., blacksmiths, goldsmiths and carpenters of the locality in accordance with the practice obtaining in a few other places and that if ever they should violate their promise they would pay a fine of 12 *poṉ* and suffer the twelve ‘disgraces,’ *kurrams*, in consequence.³⁵