Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t4.1

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As regards the articles that were given away as gifts during these occasions, we have also some interesting details. Vira Mārappa Oḍeyar, according to an inscription dated A. D. 1347, "bathing in the water of the ocean at the time of the *parva*, pouring a libation to the *manes*, the highly generous Mārappa made gifts to Brahmans of lands, cows, virgins, and gold in quantities", while on a visit to the temple of Śiva at Gōkarṇa.² Viṭhṭhala Oḍeyar, the learned governor of Āraga Eighteen Kampaṇa, in A. D. 1403, as we have already seen, is described thus: "The *hēmadri* gift did Viṭhṭhala mantri but once make, and forthwith there was a *hēmadri* gift from house to house of all the Brahmans."³ The gifts which Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya the Great made in A. D. 1513 are thus enumerated :—