Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c14.s2.66

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The attitude of the Hindus towards the Muhammadans is also seen in the encouragement they gave to the cause of Islām in their Empire. A copper-plate grant dated Śaka 1560, Pramāthin (A.D. 1639-40), tells us that the Vijayanagara monarchs gave substantial aid to a Muhammadan institution. Sāḷuva Narasinga Rāya had granted, at the end of the fifteenth century, the hōrā villages⁴ of Jilōcharla, Pulla-sānivoḍḍu, Tōṭi and Tuṅgōḍu to the daraga of a famous Muhammadan saint called Bābayya in Penugoṇḍa.