Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c12.s1.9

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¹²⁷ As regards two points there seems to be some similarity between the provincial governments of the two periods; members of the royal family were appointed as viceroys over provinces, both under Vijayanagara and the Guptas; and the provincial rulers under the mediaeval monarchs as well as those under the Guptas were privileged to use grandiloquent titles which, in some instances, were the same as those used by the kings themselves. (e.g. In Vijayanagara, the birudus of mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, mūgu-rāyara-gaṇḍa-mahārāja, and mahā-arasu). B.A.S.