Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c24.s2.86

v2.c24.s2.86

On a certain person, whose name is effaced in the inscription dated A. D. 1533, having built the temple of the god Chandramaulīśvara on the bank of the tank formed in the Ārkkavati river, and "having brought a Kāśi liṅga (or liṅga from Benares), set up the god Chandramaulīśvara, with Naṇḍi-kēśvara and Vighnēśvara", and "on making petition to the Brahmans, many learned Brahmans of various gōtras, sūtras, and names, at the auspicious time of consecration," granted specified land for the offerings of the god, together with land for an enclosure to the temple, house for the priest, and a street with the land adjoining it.² Two years later "in the year Manmatha, they made certain additional grants, the ground for the god's precincts being insufficient." In A. D. 1536 in the year Durmukhi they granted the temple koḍage to Dāsi for cultivation.³