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No. 17.)
BRIRANGAM PLATES OF DEVARAYA II.
139
The date of the grant is expressed by the chronogram rasëshurdmachandra=1356 of the Saks era which corresponded to the cyclic year Ananda, the Paurnimi day of Vaisakha. On this day and on the occasion of the Handduaratha-mahādāna, the king granted the five villages of Kulamāņikyanallar alias Nācohikrurohohi, Tiruvaranganallür, Räma. nirayananallur, Kumărakkudi, and Rajanārāyananallfir, These villages were situated in Chöla-mandala and in the Trisirappalli-rajya. The first three villages were on the southern bank of the river Kāvēri, in Rajagambhira-valanāļu. The last two villages were on the northern bank of the Kāvērl,-Kumarakkudi being situated in the western half of Mala-nadu and Rajan rynnanallar being in the eastern half of the same division. Thus the villages given lay on either bank of the Kāvērt. Of these places, Nāchchikurchchi is the village Nachohikkurichi in the Trichinopoly Taluk. The donee was Valiyadimaini layitta-Perumal-Uttamanambi, son of Uttamanambi, who belonged to the Kāśyapa-gotra Rik-sakha and the Asyalāyana-sutra. He was the sthanapati of the Srirangam temple and the above said villages were evidently granted to him for oonducting the daily worship of the god Sriranganātha.
A large number of taxes and incomes acorning from the villages are enumerated in the inscription such as those on nañjai (wet-land), pufjai (dry-land), kamuku (areca grove), karnnu, vaippu (Margo-a), tennamaram (coconut trees), kolundu, valai (plantain trees), karumbu (sugarcane), mañjal (turmeric), Aji (ginger), Serikalunir (flower) and other vän-payir (minor cultivation); vasal-vari, pör-kadamai, tari-kkadamai (tax on looms), mara-kka damai (tax on trees), fekku-ka damai (tax on oil mills), māvadai, maravadai, kulavadai, idatoras, pulvari, mandai-kandörram, olugu-nir-pattam, ullāyam, vil-param, maghamas, mallayi-maghamai, ina-vari, nattu-kanikkai, kaddayam, kirukula-vitesham, arabupēru, nallerudu (good bull), nal-kida (good sheep), nal-pasu (good cow), palatali, arisi-kanam, talaiyārikkam, madarikkai, rdyasavarttanai, avasaravarttanni, katfigevarttanai, karanike, jodi, nirūpivari (water tax), nattukanakkuvari akkasa levari, ala manji, aligam (servioe), etc.
The above list includes taxes and customary dues levied in ancient times. We have not the means of knowing the proportion of the taxes to the prodaoe, the right incidence of taxation, etc. It is elear, however, that no produce from the land or any other property was left antaxed. The various kinds of proceeds from the villages, as enumerated in our record, disclose how carefully municipal taxes were levied in South India under Vijayanagara kings. The incomes granted to the donee included vari (revende taxes), magamai and surika (tolls).
The donee Valiyadimainilayita-Peruma!- Uttamanambi who, under the name Uttamanambi, has been already referred to in the Srirangam Plates of Harihararāya-Udaiyar III (above, Vol. XVI, page 223), is said in the Köyilolugu-the temple history of Srirangam in Tamil-to have made some additions and repairs to the Ranganitha temple. The same work also refers to him by the names Maynilaiyitfa-Uttamanambi and Ellainilaiyitta-Uttamanambi. Two other relations of his who, like himself, had been the managers of the temple were Periyakrishnar yaUttamanambi and Tirumalain tha-Ulamanambi. The Lakshmikavya, a Banskrit poem written by the latter, gives the genealogy of the family as under :
In the Kábyapa-gðtra.
Chakrasiya
Uttamariya (posnesed royal insignia and managed the Rangwobba
temple)
Timnanarys
(became & sangasin)
Uttama-Chakrariya
m. Lakshmi
Krisbņa
Rama
Tirumaläabiha
Kidalánravala-Nayipar
