Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.45

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2. Three copper-plates from the Nellore district record that after the coronation which took place on the seventh tithi in the bright fortnight in the month of Vaiśākha in the year Dhātri Saka 1258 (=18th April, A.D. 1336), the Vijayanagara king Harihara Mahārāja founded an agrahāra in the village of Kāpalūr, situated in the kingdom of Chandragiri in Paḍanāḍu-śīmā, (its location), and gave it to a Brāhmaṇa named Ananta Sūraya. (The division of the agrahāra into shares and the circumstances under which Harihara founded Vidyānagara are also given.)¹