Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t2.1

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Only the strictest conformity to the *śāstras* could be expected of rulers who were thus under the spiritual guidance of renowned *rāja-gurus*. The innumerable grants recording gifts of land to persons and institutions enable us to assert that the monarchs of Vijayanagara made it a point to include in them details of the *gōtras*, *śākhās*, and *sūtras* of the donees, the minutest particulars contained in the *pañchāṅga* or calendar, and benedictory and imprecatory verses taken from the *purāṇas* and *itihāsas*. Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya on the application of the excellent minister Tippasōma, son of *kandāchāra* Brahman the minister Mādappa, in A.D. 1513, granted to Viśvēśvara, who was a highly esteemed teacher, versed in the *srauta* and *smārta*, ever performing the six rites, and who was the son of Mādhavārādhya of the Haritānvaya Āpastamba-*sūtra* and Yajus-*śākhā*, the village named Bhaṇḍāripaḷḷi in the country between the Tuṅga and the Bhadrā called Yeḍatore, in the Honnur-sime of the Śrīraṅga kingdom, situated east of Siriyūr, south-west of Benkīpura, north of Jannāpura, giving to it another name of Kṛṣṇarāyapura.¹