Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c11.69

c11.69

Thus during the time of Virūpaṇṇa Uḍaiyār the smaller assemblies of Tiruvaraṅgam, Tirupati, Tiruvāṇaikkāval and a few other places, the three kinds of paḷḷis, the four or six kinds of professionals of artisans (rathakāras) all met together for the purpose of assigning duties to the kaḷḷa vēlaikkārar who sought refuge there, and for fixing their contribution for the temple for protecting them from all dangers.⁴⁸ Then again in A.D. 1406 the trustees of the temples of Uttamatāṇīśvaram Uḍaiya Nāyanār, the Kaikkōḷa Mudalis and the ūravar of Kiraṇūr made a grant of suvandiram to a few goldsmiths of the village.⁴⁹ Here we do not know if the temple trustees and the Kaikkōḷa Mudalis enjoyed the same rights with regard to these grants as the village assembly which must have been a better knit and a more organised political body. But these communal bodies which had a quasi-political character seem to have however enjoyed the right of co-operating with the assembly in some matters.