The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c32.53

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Virupaksha's successors were also faithful devotees of Vishnu, without however excluding the devotion to Siva, the old protector god of the Empire. Krishna Deva Raya worshipped Vishnu, Siva and also Vithoba (an incarnation of Vishnu known only in Maharashtra) to whom he erected a temple in Vijayanagara ². Achyuta Raya made in 1534 a gift of land with a house in the presence of Vitthalesvara and on the banks of the Tungabhadra river, to each of the two Vaishnava Brahmans who recited a *puranam* in the same temple ³. Then the same sovereign is said to have had a son by the favour of the god of Tirupati; hence the child is called Venkatadri ⁴. But the greatest achievement of Achyuta so far as the propagation of Vaishnavism is concerned, was