Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.11

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We may also note the *birudus* of less important dignitaries. In A. D. 1529 the *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara hanneya-gajapati*, *dharaṇī-varāha*, and *manneya-śārdūla-chamaṭi* Bhōga Rāja (or Bhōgaya Dēva), with other titles (*ivu modalāda-birudāvaḷi-bhūshitarāda*) was the Nāyaka placed over Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa by Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya.⁴ The *Mahāprabhu* Bhairaṇṇa Nāyaka is given the following *birudus* in A. D. 1472: *Maleya-hulimārthāṇḍan* (the sun to hill tigers), *Iḍigay-eṇṭu-daṇḍigeya manneyara-gaṇḍa* (champion over the manneyas of the Iḍiga Eight Daṇḍige), *the mother-home to both (sects of) Nānā-dēśis*, *chief-lord of Aiśvaryya-pura*, the *Pārśva-tīrthēśvara* of Idugaṇi.⁵