Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.154

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In about A. D. 1552 Narasappaya, Agent for the affairs of the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Timma Rājayya, granted the Channiganapura village in Amachavāḍi-sthala, for the decorations and services of the god Aṇilēśvara, in order that merit might accrue to Kṛishṇappayya.⁴ It cannot be determined whether this Kṛishṇappayya is to be identified with his namesake mentioned in the following inscriptions. The Mahānāyakāchārya Koṇḍana Nāyaka's son Tirumala Nāyaka granted land under the Kāmasamudra tank in A. D. 1558 for the god Vīrabhadra, in order that merit might accrue to Baiyapa Nāyaka's son Kṛishṇapa Nāyaka.⁵ An inscription dated Śaka 1483 (A. D. 1561-2) records the gift of the tax taḷaiyārikkam in Kūgaiyurpēṭṭai, South Arcot district, for special worship on Fridays in the shrines of Periyammai in the temple of Poṇparappi-Nayiṇār and Oppilāda Ammai in the temple of Pañchākshara-Nāyaṇār at Kūgaiyūr by an Agent of Śūrappa Nāyakkar Ayyaṇ, for the merit of adigāram Kṛishṇappa Nāyaka.⁶ Kāmarasa Oḍeyar, Agent for the affairs of Kṛishṇappa Nāyakayya, granted to the priests (sthānikarige) of Sidē-dēva of Naṇḍi a bhāshā-patra, in about A. D. 1565, granting to the god fifteen gadyāṇa, which the gaṇāchāris had given for Sidē-dēva, in order that merit might accrue to Kṛiṣṇappa Nāyakayya. The epigraph further adds that "with these fifteen gadyāṇa an offering will be made once a day, pronouncing the name of Kṛiṣṇappa Nāyakayya."[¹]