Administrative System of the Marathas c26.s3.27

c26.s3.27

Almost the same phrases are repeated in the Satyamangalam plates of Deva Raya II (dated 1484 A.D.), ¹² and the Krishnapura inscription of Krishna Raya (dated 1529). ¹³ The kingdom of Vijayanagar came to an end in 1565 when Ramaja was defeated and slain at Talikota near Raichur but a branch of the family known as the Karnata dynasty survived till 1664. ¹⁴ Lands were given to Brahmans and grant deeds were executed in their favour by minor Hindu chiefs in Maharashtra. Some of these pre-Shivaji Sanads have come down to us and they fully explain the continuity of the form and style of these grant deeds for a period of about ten centuries. This in short is the history of the evolution of the innumerable Marathi grant deeds that the labours of Sane, Rajwade, and Parasnis have made familiar to-day to every student of Maratha history.