Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c22.s3.87

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Sāḷuva Immaḍi Narasiṅga Rāya's popularity is also commemorated in epigraphs. His servant Kasaveya Nāyaka in A. D. 1433 granted the Nandiyakuṇṭe-sime in Vāṭa for the anointing and festivals of the gods Vāṭa Kēśava and Hanumanta, in order that *dharma* may be to Immaḍi Narasiṅga Rāya Mahārāya.¹ For the same purpose the royal treasurer Dēvappa Nāyaka's son Balanātha, converting Kempa . . . halli into the Narasāmbu . . . agrahāra, granted it to Kaya Nañjinātha Dikshita's son Narasimha Dikshita in about A. D. 1495.² The *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Timmaya Dēva Mahā-arasu's son Narasaya Dēva Mahā-arasu gave to Gūḷiya and the other priests (*sthānikaru*) of the god Bhairava of Sihati a *śāsana*, in A.D. 1495, granting them twenty-eight *gadyāṇa* for the offerings and festivals of the god " in order that merit might accrue to Narasinga Rāya Mahārāya and to our father Chikka Timma Rāja."³ Tipparasa-ayya, house-minister (*maneya-pradhāna*) of Kaṭhāri Sāḷuva Narasiṅga Rāya, granted Bānūr and Hulikal in Baya-nāḍ for the decorations and illuminations of the god Bāṇēśvara of Magge in Baya-nāḍ, in about A. D. 1498, " in order that Narasinga Rāya Mahārāya might have a secure reign for a thousand years."⁴