Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t5.5

v2.c21.s3.t5.5

tad-binnaha-sākshigaḷa oppita.¹ Superstition was to some extent responsible for the inclusion of the following witnesses by Tippe Setti of the Vijayanagara treasury, when, as related above, in A. D. 1423, he dedicated to the god Tirumala (of the Chikka-Honnuru-grāma, Huṇsūr tāluka ?) the tank which he had constructed, in order that merit might accrue to his parents, on the east side of Chikka-Honnūru. The record contains "the witness of the Fish, Tortoise and Boar, and the eight regents of the points of the compass, of the chief holy meritorious Brahmans, of the priests, nambis, and body servants of that god Tirumale, of Viraṇa-ayya of Kariyamaranahaḷḷi, the ? snake-charmers (hāvvarum), the ? tellers of omens by lizards (balli-munnibarum), of all these sacred persons..."²