Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.110

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The people continued to show their love for the great monarch till the last year of his reign. An inscription dated A.D. 1529 in front of the Mallikārjuna temple at Paṅkajanahaḷḷi, Chikkanāyakanahaḷḷi tāluka, tells us that on the holy occasion of Śivarātri, Chenni Seṭṭi of Bāṇavāḍi granted in the presence of the god Virūpāksha of Paṁpākshētra, the village of Paṅkajanahaḷḷi for the god Mallikārjuna of the village, for the prosperity of the Emperor Kṛishṇa Dēva Rāya.³ Chandra Sēkharayya, according to an inscription also dated in the same year (Śaka 1451), gave as a gift the village of Gaṭirājupēṇṭa to Rāchūṭi Viraṇodaya of Basava Maṭha, for the merit of the great monarch, Dēmarasayya, and himself.⁴ In an effaced epigraph assigned to the same year, Malapa Nāyaka "granted this *pura*" (Chaudayanahaḷḷi in Tiptūr ?) "in the name of his mother Mudaiya", to Virapa Oḍeyar in order that merit might accrue to Kṛishṇa Rāya.⁵