Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.128

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Paḷḷikoṇḍa Mudaliyār, son of Narasaṇa Mudaliyār, according to a record dated in the cyclic year Durmukhi (A. D. 1536 ?) had the same motive when he made a gift of land to the same temple of Mēkku-Nāyaṉār at Tirumērkōṭṭai.¹ Achyuta Rāya Mallapaṇṇa in A. D. 1537 made over the village of Nandi-cheruvu in the Buruḍakuṇṭe-sīme to the god Virēśvara of Lepākṣhī in the Peṇugoṇḍa-sīme, in order that merit might be to Achyuta Mahārāya.² Rāmabhaṭṭar-ayyaṇ gave further proof of his service to the State by granting in Śaka 1461 (A. D. 1539-40) as a gift 6,360 *pon* for offerings to the god at Kāḷahasti, Chittoor district, for the merit of the ruler.³ In A. D. 1539 Bhaṇḍāram Aparasaya's son Timmarasayya and Koṇḍappayya made a grant of Māragānikuṇṭa, with its hamlets, in the Guyyalūr-sīme attached to Peṇugoṇḍa, for the offerings of the god Māragānikuṇṭa Tiruvēṅgaḷanātha, in order that merit might be to the monarch.⁴ According to a record the date of which is effaced, Rāṇōji Nāyaka made a gift of the village of Kalahaḷḷi, also for the merit of the king.⁵