Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c17.s3.t2.63

v2.c17.s3.t2.63

The desire of the people that puṇya or dharma might accrue to their parents, was also extended to the other members of the family. Avasarada Chandraśēkharayya, in the name of his father-in-law Avasarada Dēmarasayya, in A. D. 1534, made a grant to provide for a chhatra for sixty Brahmans, and for the offerings of a god. The inscription which is defaced at the end contains, however, the words "by order of Achyuta Rāya-mahāraya".⁶ In A. D. 1599, during the reign of Śrīraṅga Rāya, Veṅkaṭa Kṛiṣhṇajāmmā, meritorious wife of Immaḍi Hiri-Kempayya-Gauḍaraiyya, the Yaḷahaṅka-nāḍ-prabhu, caused to be given by means of a *dharma-sādhana* stone inscription the Veṅkaṭakṛṣṇasāgara village in Kuṇigil, for the maintenance of an *agrahāra* in order that "our father-in-law Immaḍi-Kempe-Gauḍaraiyya and our mother-in-law Liṅgājammā may obtain merit."¹