Later Gangas Mandali Thousand

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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12/The Later Gangas: Maṇḍali-Thousand
is the chief headman of that unit of villages. Thus the Mandalināḍ had comprised some nādus such as Eḍatore-näḍ, Haduvalikenāḍ. Therefore, the Mandali-Thousand naḍ itself is a bigger unit of nāḍs which had included smaller units of nāḍus, Kampaņas and hence the denoimation Thousand.
A gāvuṇḍa (gāmuṇḍa), a fief and head of village, is called nālgāvuṇḍa, when he is head of a group of villages. Some of the nālgāvuṇḍas were well trained warriors and they were also padevalas (Haḍuvala). Being elevated to still higher position, they would be the daṇḍanāyakas (daṇḍädhipati). A reference to Ganganāḍa nālprabhu Bidirya Haḍuvala Kālayya confirms this statement (HI.7. 1204. Kuruvagadde p. 367 line: 45). Some of nālgāmuṇḍas were also called as the mahāsāmantas, when they were entitled for the honour of the five great drums, the Pañcamahā-vädyas. Nāgayya nayaka (HI. 10. 1111) and Oṭṭighaṭṭiyanna were the famous mahā- sāmantas of the MandaliThousand. Ottighattiyanna, was ruling in peace the gāvuṇḍike, with enjoyment for one generation (HI. 14.1076), in Kotepura belonging to the Cilurur-balle-Thirty Kampana of the MandaliThousnad-nāḍ; he was entitled to the five big drums.
The Perggades (Herggade, Peggade, Heggade, Veggade, Hegde) were feuds, the chief of the village on par with the gāvuṇḍas. Mostly the Perggades are the officers to collect the local taxes, similar to Vodḍa-raulas; they were also in charge of the domestic affairs of the palace. The status of the Perggade is called Perggadetana (Sh. 10. 1085). Perggaḍati (Heggaḍti, Heggaḍiti) is the wife of a Perggade. In the Mandalinaḍ, the Heggades also played a prominent role. For the preceptor Bālacandradeva of Mula sangha Kāṇūr-gaṇa, meṣapāṣāṇagaccha, the Herggade Jakkayya and his wife Jakkavve, caused a Caityalaya to be made in Diḍgur in 1106 C.E., setting up the god Supārsva; the Herggade couple made grants of land (specified) for the god Supārśva, and for gifts of food to the rṣis, the Jain friars (HI. 5.1160 p. 364).
This Caityalaya of Supārsva, the seventh Tirthankara, is a rare temple because most of the thousands of basadis in Karnataka