Vilasa

Place

Vilasa is a village a few miles from Amalapuram, and it still keeps its old name.¹ The Vilasa grant names Siripalle and Magam as boundary villages, and they too are in the Amalapuram taluk.¹

The grant places Vilasa in the Kona country, on the bank of the Godavari.² The editors of the grant explained Kona as the country of the Haihaya chiefs of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.²³¹ It is the land between the Vasishtha and Gautami branches of the Godavari, still called the Konasima.²³¹

The grant of about 1330

The Musunuri chief Prolaya Nayaka gave Vilasa to the Brahmin scholar Vennaya on the occasion of a lunar eclipse.² The grant praises Vilasa as the best of the fertile villages of the Kona country.² Vennaya divided it into 108 shares among learned Brahmins and renamed it Prolavaram after the king.² Two of the shareholders were the village gods, Gautamesvara and Kesava.² See the Vilasa grant and the Musunuri Nayakas.

Footnotes

1. Venkataramanayya and Somasekhara Sarma, “Vilasa Grant” (1957–58), p. 256 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. N. Venkataramanayya and M. Somasekhara Sarma, “Vilasa Grant of Prolaya-nayaka”, Epigraphia Indica XXXII (1957–58), p. 242 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

3. Venkataramanayya and Somasekhara Sarma, “Vilasa Grant” (1957–58), p. 255 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩²