Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s2.t2.2

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¹ Taylor, O. H. MSS., II, p. 157. In a note on the flambeaus which lighted up the avenue, Taylor rightly says that that ceremony called the *divați-salām* or *divați-vandanam* or *divați-koluttu* is "said to have been never omitted, unless the king were sick; and then not to have made the *Divaṭi-salām* was the same thing as to announce the king's illness.. two or more persons perform various evolutions of double torches in approaching towards the king; they then make their obeisance, in which all others present join". *Ibid.*