Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.152

v2.c22.s3.152

Some popular officials of this period deserve notice. The Pēṭe Rāma Nāyaka's son Varada Nāyaka granted, by means of a *dharma-śasana* in A. D. 1542, the village of Mukkari of the Tēkal fort for the god Allāḷanātha of Māsiti, in order that *dharma* might be to Tirumala Rāya Oḍeyar. The ruler who is mentioned here is evidently Veṅkaṭapati Dēva Rāya who ruled for a brief period of one year.¹ Rāchūr Narasimhaya granted the village of Allāḷasundra in the Śivanasamudra-sīme, for the offerings of the god Allāḷanātha of Jakkūr, in A. D. 1544, in order that merit might accrue to his master, the Mahā-maṇḍalēśvara, the Marāṭa Viṭhṭhlēśvara Dēva Mahā-arasu.² Loḍava Nāyaka, son of Bole Nāyaka, and Keñchapa Nāyaka, son of Lakhapa Nāyaka, in A. D. 1560, made a grant of a village (not specified in the record) in the Bēlūr-sīme, for the service of the god Tirumala of Kahu, in order that merit might accrue to Virūpa Rāja Oḍeyar.³