The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c17.106

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Two qualities among the rest are selected for special praise: his piety and his wisdom. As to the first, the Penuguluru grant says that he is ‘a repository of nectar-like devotion to Hari (Vishnu)’ ³. “This king,” the Vellangudi plates of Venkata II inform us, “performed frequently all the danas mentioned in the agamas, such as the kanaka-tuba-purusha and the upadanas in the temple of Kanchi, Sriranga, etc., and at the sacred tirthas” ⁴. He built temples and bathing-places for pilgrims at Kanchi, Srirangam, Seshachala, Kanakshaba, Ahobaladri and other places ⁵. In 1569, while ‘seated on the diamond throne’ and ‘ruling the Kingdom of Vijayanagara, he made a grant to the god Anjaneya’ at Udayagiri ⁶. In the following year another was made “with pleasure and libations of gold and water, as a sarva-manya, to Brahmans, of several sakkas, names, gotras and sutras, of the rich village named Penuguluru, with the two other villages, Yalanimapadu-Chennapalli and Konduru-Chennapalli, beautiful with gardens” ⁷.