Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t7: G. Piety among High Officials
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c21.s3.t7
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G. Piety among High Officials
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As regards the orthodoxy of high officials, who were not of the priestly class, we may cite the evidence from an inscription dated A. D. 1629 which speaks of Immaḍi Tammaya Gauḍa. He was the grandson of Sugaṭur Tammaya Gauḍa "of the fourth *gōtra*". He, his wife, and certain Gauḍas (named) had the *agniṣṭōma* (sacrifice) performed by Kṛṣṇa Sōmayāji (descent stated).¹ But a more interesting example of puritanism is that of Bāchappa, son of Kirti Dēva. We have had an occasion of mentioning this *Bhāṭa* in the previous pages. According to an epigraph dated A. D. 1358 he performed various works of merit, *e. g.*, tanks, channels, areca-gardens, constructing golden palanquins, *chāmaras*, and umbrellas for gods; and in addition to these he made sluices to the tanks he had constructed, planted lines of trees on the four sides, and performed the ceremony of *upanayanam* to the *pipal* trees planted at the four corners.²
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¹ E. C. X., Mb. 62, p. 94.
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² E. C., III, Ml. 22, p. 58.