The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c31.39

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Again the Mangalampad grant says that Venkata was ‘devoted to the protection of the learned’ ². An inscription of 1612 at Kommaddi, Cuddapah, records a grant of Venkata II to the learned people of Vuputur ³. In 1602-3 the same King granted the village of Mangalampad to Sri Rangaraja, son of Jagganatharaya, ‘the foremost of the students of the Yajus Sakha’, a descendant of the cook of the great Ramanujacharya. This cook had himself been famous for his learning in all the scriptures ⁴. The Vilapaka grant was also made to a learned man of Urputur, named Tiruvengalanatharaya; he is said to be ‘conversant with the eighteen Puranas’ ⁵.