Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c11.68

c11.68

Side by side with these political and corporate bodies we see certain professional associations, guilds and mercantile corporations discharging some duties similar to those transacted by the first type of local republics. Their constitutional status in relation to the central government was considerable, and they enjoyed a share in the management of the local administration. But it is difficult to say exactly if they enjoyed their powers independently of the sabhā or the nāḍu of the locality. In the light of the available evidence with regard to their power, it is reasonable to assume that they enjoyed certain concurrent powers with the sabhā and the nāḍu, and in a majority of cases co-operated with them in the transaction of their business.