Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.52

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Presents were also given to masons, artisans, and carpenters. According to an inscription dated A. D. 1431, Tippa Rāja Oḍeyar's son Gōpa Rāja Oḍeyar's minister was Mallama Rāja. The son of Mallama Rāja was named Siṅga Rāja. This official "had the image Gaṇḍa-bhēruṇḍa, which was on the Māragaudaṇakaṭṭe west of Dūḍanahaḷḷi in Pāla-nāḍ, brought to the door of the *gōpura* of the *maṇṭapa* facing the god Varadarāja." And on this occasion, he had the "wood-work done by the hand of the Avikal carpenter Pēvōja's son Chājā-ōja", and having set up the door, and "the iron work done by the hand of the blacksmith Añjala Diviṅgōja, gave to those *ōjas* horse and umbrellas, with hereditary land (*kāṇi-bhūmyagi*) (as specified)."²