The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c17.4

v1.c17.4

According to an apocryphal prophecy contained in one of the MSS. of the Mackenzie Collection, Tirumala’s coronation took place in Penukonda¹. “At the coronation of this moon among kings”, we read in the Kuniyur plates of Venkata III, “foremost among the famous, this earth, being sprinkled with floods of water poured out at donations, occupied the place of queen”²; while in two grants of Venkata II and in one of the same Tirumala, 1571, it is said that “at his anointing the earth was also so anointed as to appear as his crowned Queen" ¹; and in a grant of Ranga III, 1645, it is recorded that "the streams poured forth with gifts made by this most famous of kings at the time of his anointing to the throne, caused the earth to appear as if she also was so anointed" ².