Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.77

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The various merchants of Māmbaḷḷi (in Yeḷandūr Jāgir?), in A. D. 1428, agreed to pay 1 *gadyāṇa* for every loom together with certain other fees, effaced in the inscription, for the expense of the god Vaidanātha of Māmbaḷḷi, the bathing place of Hariharanātha, "in order that he (Dēva Rāya) might obtain universal dominion".⁶ The great minister Maṅgappa Daṇṇayaka's son Pratāpa Rāya granted the Virūpākshapura village in Yelahanka-nāḍ with a rental of twenty honnu, for the offerings and decorations of the god Sōme-dēva in front of the town in Sakanasamudra (Sakanasamudrada voḷagaṇa ūr-mundaṇa Sōme-dēvara nayivēdya-aṅga-raṅga bhōgakke), " in order that long life, health, and increase of wealth may be to Dēva Rāya Mahārāya, and from love to Paramēśvara."¹ The singular instance of the Prithvī Śeṭṭi of the Chandragutti Eighteen Kaṃpaṇa, Lāyadakere Śirumi Śeṭṭi, who committed suicide in A. D. 1449, on account of Dēva Rāya II " having come to his setting", as given in a previous page, may be recalled in this connection.² We have also had an occasion of citing the evidence of the poet Chandra about the regard in which Dēva Rāya II was held by the people.