Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c17.s3.t2.21

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This spirit did not disappear in the later ages of Vijayanagara history. In the reign of Kṛiṣhṇa Dēva Rāya, his *kāryakarta* (Agent) Mahārāja Koṇḍamarusayyagāru, in A.D. 1520-1, caused to be constructed a tank at Anantasāgara for the religious merit of his mother Saṅkāyammā and his father Timmarusayya.³ Koṇḍamarusayya's precedent was copied by his son *Rāyasta* (i.e., *Rāyasa*) Ayyaparusayya, who, in Śaka 1447 (A.D. 1525-6), gave the village Jālavaṭi to the temple of Mallikārjuna Dēva at Kambadūru, Anantapur district, "in order that Rāyasta Koṇḍamarusayya may dwell in heaven".⁴ Kṛiṣhṇappa Nāyaka, son of Sōlūr Basavappa Nāyaka, in A.D. 1530, granted the village of Hārōhaḷḷi, in the Śivanasamudra-sthaḷa, for the decorations and offerings of the god Tiruveṅgaḷanātha of Siṅgāpura, in order that merit might be to Achyuta Rāya Mahārāya and to his own father Basavappa Nāyaka.⁵ The *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Raghupati Rāja Mahā-arasu in A. D. 1538 made a grant of land in order that merit might be to Sirugammā, who was evidently his mother.⁶ The commander of the gate (of the palace) [*bāgila-daḷavāyi*] of Achyuta Rāya, Veṅgala Rāja, in A.D. 1542, in order that merit might be to his father Viṭha Rāja (*i.e.*, Viṭhṭhala Rāja) and to the god Viṭhṭhala, caused the Kukkasamudra to be constructed,¹ Timmaṇṇa Nāyaka and Koṇḍana Nāyaka, in A.D. 1546, in order that merit might accrue to their father, whose name is not given in the record, granted land for the god Vīrabhadra (of ?)². The Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Jagan-nātha Rājayya, in A. D. 1550, granted for the offerings and the tenth day festival of the god Chennigarāya of Turuvekere, the village of Buvanahaḷḷi, in Sampa . . . sīme, in order that his father might obtain merit.³ In the same year Vidyādhara-mahāpātre-arasu gave to Lakshmipati-ayya, a learned Brahman, the village of Haḷḷadapura of the Kalla-haḷḷi-sthala in the Terakaṇāmbi-sime, in order that merit might accrue to his mother, whose name is effaced in the inscription, with the usual presentation of coin and pouring of water.⁴