Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c17.s3.t2.43.1

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The citizens were in no sense behind their princes and rulers in recording their love to their parents. During the viceroyalty of Yadugiri Virūpāksha Rāya, in about A.D. 1382, Goṭṭi Seṭṭi, who had received from the hands of the viceroy Huṇasavaḷḷi, for an agrahāra to his house, constructed the Nāgasamudra, in the name of his father Nāga Seṭṭi, and dividing the agrahāra into fifteen shares bestowed them on Brahmans.² In A.D. 1395, when Immaḍi Bukka Rāya was ruling from Muḷuvāyi, Chinnaṇṇa, who was in charge of the village Hodali in Bilusone-nāḍ, in order that merit might obtain to his father Mācha Gauṇḍa and his mother Melayakkā, set up a dīpa-māle stone pillar for the god Vighnēśvara.³ Appalayya in A.D. 1409-10 constructed a temple of Chennakēśavaradēva and Ranganāthasvāmi, for the religious merit of his parents Mādhava-Jōsyulu and Jābālikā.⁴ Bankarasa's son Viṭhappa, in A.D. 1415, with the consent of his relatives, formed the villages of Beḷali and Kiṭṭaḍūr into an agrahāra, named after his mother Akkāmbikāpura, and dividing it into twenty-two shares gave them to Brahmans.⁵ Tippe Seṭṭi of the Vijayanagara treasury (Vijayanagarada kōshada), in A.D. 1423, dedicated to the god Tirumala of Chikka Honnūru the tank (taṭāka) which he had constructed in order that merit might accrue to his father and mother.⁶ On Lāyadakere Śirumi Seṭṭi, of Hiriyakere town, dying at Koḍakani in A.D.