Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t6.4

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In Vijayanagara times princes as well as people celebrated the vratas and sacrifices enjoined in the Hindu scriptures. An inscription dated A. D. 1356 relates that sometime after the illustrious minister Sōmapa had built the temple of Srī-Sōmanātha, "in observance of the Monday-vow (sōmavāra-vrata), the king (Bukka's son Kumāra Kampaṇa) paid a visit to " the most blessed god Sōmanātha ", and made grant of a large village for the god. Kumāra Kampaṇa, according to the same record, was a " unique treasure of music, a tree of paradise to the learned ", and was " intent on establishing dharma."²