[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.heras-1927) › v1.c19.14 # The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c19.14 The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c19.14 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.heras-1927.v1.c19.14) Krishnappa Nayaka had founded two towns: one to the West of Tinnevelly named Kadaiyam-Krishnapuram, and another to the East of Palamcotta called Krishnapuram after his own name. To this he seems to have devoted greater attention; for he built there a Saiva temple, a Vaishnava temple and many agraharas: he dug out a teppakulam and furnished the town with all customary appurtenances ³. The Krishnapuram plates of Sadasiva give some more details; by his care "was built a temple at Krishnapura", they say, "which was encircled by a wall of the shape of the pranava and surmounted a broad and lofty tower. It has a large ranga-mandapa raised on a series of beautiful stone pillars and adorned with rows of spouts. He built a car like the Mandara mountain, and also broad roads round the temple, for the propitiation of the god Vishnu set up there" ⁴. Then in 1563 he made a gift of six villages and some lands to the same temple of Vishnu, (venerated there under the name of Tiruvengalanatha), 'for the merit of his father' ⁵. Two years earlier he had presented a piece of land to the Nelliyappar temple at Tinnevelly ⁶. - [Previous: v1.c19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.heras-1927.v1.c19.13) - [Next: v1.c19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.heras-1927.v1.c19.15) - [Up: v1.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.heras-1927.v1.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Epigraphia Indica](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ei) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.heras-1927.v1.c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.heras-1927.v1.c19.14) · Pramāṇa