The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c18.91

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10. These military operations did not in any way interfere with the piety of the Emperor; for he was a staunch devotee of Vishnu, as we shall see in one of the following chapters. An inscription of 1572, just a little before he ascended the throne, in the Gopinatha temple of Srirangarayapuram, Guntur, records a gift of land to Gangadeva Rameswara for worship by Prince Sri Ranga, son of Tirumala ³. We know besides several other religious grants made by Ranga during his reign, in 1575-6 ⁴, 1578 ⁵ and 1585 ⁶. In 1573 his agent in Nellore made arrangements for a religious festival ⁷; in 1581 the Dalavay Venkatappa Nayadu, under orders of Negoti Timma Nayadu, the minister of the king, remitted several taxes due on the land owned at Bukkasagaram and Anantapuram by the temple of Chavudesvari ¹.