Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c8.79

c8.79

But when the regular courts or the king tried the cases, they went into their merits, examined the documents, tried witnesses, and finally gave their decisions. A valuable record at Śrīvilliputtūr in the Rāmnāḍ district dated A.D. 1577 states that when a dispute arose with regard to the boundaries of the lands belonging to the temples of the Goddess Śūḍikoḍutta Nācciyār and the God Paḍikkāśuvaitta Nāyaṇār, it was decided by a committee consisting of Virappa Nāyakkar, Ariyanātha Mudaliyār and a few others. “Before the day appointed for settlement, orders to assemble were issued to the parties to the suit. They brought their accounts and jñāpakam (memos ?). The allegations of both the parties were enquired into, the lands were inspected and final orders were then passed that Iraṭṭai Karīśalkuḷam should belong to the Nācciyār temple and that the tank Mālaiyiḍāṇ should be added to the Aḍiyārkuḷam as belonging to the Śiva temple. Boundary stones were fixed at the proper places to mark off the holdings of the Nācciyār temple.”47