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VIJAYANAGARA
Two other chiefs figuring in Achyutarāya’s inscriptions of the year’s
collection are Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Tirumalayadēva-Mahārāja, son of Rāmarāja-
Śrīraṅgayyadēva-Mahārāja of Kandanavrōlu (No. 335) and Veṅgaḷarāja, son
of Tirumalarāja, who held the Chennūru-sīma as his Nāyaṅkara (No. 303).
Sadasivadeva-Maharaya.
69. Sadāśiva is represented by 16 inscriptions, nearly all of the which come
form the Kurnool and Cuddapah
districts. They give the names of
several chiefs who served the king in this region, viz. :â
1. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Rāmarāja Tirumalarājayyadēva-Mahārāja
(No. 276), who is also referred to in an inscription at Alagarkōyil
(Madura) in the distant south (No. 93 of 1929, dated in Śaka 1465).
2. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Nandēla Chinna-Avubaḷayyadēva-Mahārāja, son
of Naraśiṅgarāja and grandson of Nandēla Śiṅgarāja of the Lunar
race and the Ātrēya-gōtra, who held Śiruvoḷḷa-sīma as a nāyaṅkara form the king (No. 267).
3. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Nandēla Timmarāja, who held Ghaṇḍikōṭa as amara-māgāṇi. His subordinates were Mallappa, son of [Andugula] Parvatarāja and Timmayya and Sūrayya, sons of Timmarāja of Tippalūr (No. 333).
4. Mahānāyaṅkāchārya Kūnapuli Dāvināyani Pedapāpi-Nāyaniṅgāru
(No. 318).
5. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara China Timmayyadēva-Mahārāja, son of Timmarāja, grandson of Rāmarāja and the great-grandson of Āravīṭi
Bukkarāja, who held the Avuku-sīma as nāyaṅkara from the king
(No. 269). He is mentioned in an inscription at Narasṅgapuram
in the Chingleput district dated in Śaka 1467 (No. 250 of 1910).
6. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Koṇḍarājayyadēva-Mahārāja, son of Rāmarāja-
Veṅkaṭēśa who held the Gondalūru-sīma as a nāyaṅkara form the
king (No. 270),
7. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Kṛishṇamarājayyadēva-Mahārāja, son of Mūrttirājayyadēva-Mahārāja and the grandson of Āravīṭi Bukkarāja
Rāmarājayyadēva-Mahārāja, who held the Śiruvōḷa-sīma as a
nāyaṅkara form Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Rāmarāja Veṅkaṭādrirājayyadēva-Mahārāja (No. 258).
8. Timmarāja, son of Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Pina Śrīraṅgarāja, who held
Tēkaṇṭikōṭa-sīma as an amara-nāyaka (No. 289).
9. Śrīraṅgarājayya (ruling at ?) Jagatāpi-Guttidurga (No. 292).
10. Nandyēla Timmarājayya Nāraparājayya for whose merit a gift was
made to the local temple by three persons (No. 333).
11. Nalan-Kṛishṇama-Nāyaka, son of Vayyappa-Nāyaka of the Kavarai-nāyaka community was in the South Arcot district. His uncle was
Akkappa-Nāyaka, whose son, Koṇḍama-Nāyaka figures as donor
to the temples at Ādichchanallūr (No. 240 of 1934-35) and
Vīrapāṇḍyanallūr in the South Arcot district (No. 60).
Remission of taxes on the barbers and the Dommaris.
70. A number of inscriptions of Sadāśiva have been copied in previous
years which record the remission of taxes on the barbers throughout the
dominion. His general order to remit the taxes on this community was given
effect to by local chiefs within their jurisdiction. Four records in the present
collection register this concession shown to the barbers at Maddikēra (No. 292),
Gondalūru-sīma (No. 270), Avuku-sīma (No. 276) and Kolavali in the Nandyāla
province (No. 317). Along with the
barbers, the Dommaris (acrobats)
were also exempted from certain taxes
(No. 270). They consisted of 64 families and lived a corporate life as may be
judged from an endowment made to the temple at Urutūru for the merit of the
whole community (No. 329). Some of the taxes remitted on these two classes
were pannu, kāṇika, Dommari-pannu, veṭṭi-vēmulu, kāpura-pannu and
siddhaya
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