Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c8.132

c8.132

A few offences were punishable by the levy of fines. A record at Paḷaṅkarai in the Pudukkōṭṭai State specifies certain rates of fines for certain offences. They were fixed at ten *paṇams*.⁷⁶ According to an inscription in the Koppa taluk in the Kaḍūr district, one Cikkaṇṇa Nāyaka was fined 30 *varāhas* for a crime of his.⁷⁷ A defaced inscription at Raṅgiyam in the Pudukkōṭṭai State records an agreement drawn among the residents of Rāśaśiṅgamaṅgalam teṇ parru of Poṇṇamarāpadināḍu regarding the punishment to be inflicted on the person who killed another in any assault. The rates were fixed at 5 *paṇams* payable to Bhūmīśvara Nāyanār if the victim was a male and 10 *paṇams* if a female.⁷⁸