Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t10.7

v2.c21.s3.t10.7

The instance of minister Mallarasayya, as is related in an epigraph stated about A. D. 1500 which we have already seen, of the times of the Mahānāyakāchārya Yallappa Odeyar, coming to Beṇṇagere, stopping the daily allowance at the Nārāyaṇa temple, having proper prōkshaṇa (or purification) performed for the god, and granting a śāsana regulating the worship and ceremonies,⁴ only proves the care which the people and the State took to maintain the precints of a temple holy. We cannot determine for want of evidence the nature of the incident which led to the stopping of the daily allowance at the temple, the purification ceremony which it entailed, and the consequent regulation of worship and ceremonies.¹