Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s1.12

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The Tamil kings too showed their appreciation of the services of their subjects by bestowing on them honours and privileges. According to an inscription dated A. D. 1004 Manija fought gallantly during the reign of the Chōḷa king Rāja Kēsarivarman Perimmāṇaḍigaḷ, and secured from the monarch the privilege of wearing a paṭṭa inscribed with the title *Kshatriya-śikhāmaṇi-Koṅgāḷva*, together with a nāḍ called Mālavvi (mod Mālambi).¹ In the reign of Sundara Pāṇḍya in A. D. 1227, his great minister Sōran Uyyaninrāḍuvāṇ *alias* Gurukulattariyaṇ was not only entitled to a great many titles but to the honour of enjoying a rare privilege. Whenever he visited a temple, a kāḷam had to be sounded proclaiming—"Hail! Gurukulattambirāṇ is come!"²