Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c8.23

c8.23

An epigraph at Tiruppukuli in the Chingleput district dated A.D. 1438-39 discloses certain interesting details about the law concerning the inalienable nature of service *ināms*. According to it lands granted as service *ināms* were neither to be sold nor mortgaged by the parties who received them, but if they should violate the law they would have to suffer the punishment that traitors to the king and the community would suffer, and in addition to this they were liable to be fined by the officers of the temple treasury.¹⁴