Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c18.s2.t1.25

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³ For a detailed account of the various subsects of the Iḍangai and Valangai communities, see *Madras Manual of Administration*, III. pp. 1036-7; Oppert, *M. J. L. S.* for 1887-8, p. 85, *seq.*; Buchanan *Journey Through Malabar*, I, p. 77, *seq.* In what why this classification can be connected with the Kadamba-Pallava controversy mentioned in the Shikarpura stone inscription of Mayūraśarma dated about A. D. 450 cited above, I cannot make out. But it is curious to note that at Kañchi, where that Kadamba monarch overcame the Pallavas, these differences between the Right Hand and Left Hand sections are most rigorously observed. "In this city the differences between these two classes are more marked than in any other place as evidenced by the existence of Valangai and Iḍangai temples, Valangai and Iḍangai *maṇḍapas*, and Valangai and