Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s1.9

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Honours were conferred on these gallant men who sacrificed their lives in order to "fulfil their engagement" with their rulers. Kuvara Lakkaya, as we have remarked, received the privilege of binding a golden toḍar on his left leg. This was given to him together with the right of tying "the pearl peṇḍe round his lotus foot". "The clusters of pearls in his gaṇḍa-peṇḍāra shone like the stars, and the golden toḍar on his ruddy left foot like the fresh opening champaka blossom".³ Gaṇḍa-peṇḍāra seems to have been conferred also as a title by the Hoysala rulers. Thus under Hoysala Narasimha Dēva, in A. D. 1277, Sōmeya Daṇṇāyaka's son-in-law Kumāra Dorabhak-kare Daṇṇāyaka is called the king's chief crest-jewel minister, the gāyi-gōvaḷa, gaṇḍa-peṇḍāra, and maṇḍalika-jāba.⁴