Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.101

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The feudatories and nobles of Vijayanagara also gave endowments for the car festival. A record dated Śaka 1463 (A. D. 1541-2) tells us that a gift of money was made by a feudatory (not named) of the Emperor Achyuta Rāya for maintaining the car festival in the temple of Tuyyamāmaṇi-Nāyinār at Uṛṛattūr, Trichinopoly district.² In A. D. 1541 the Agent for the affairs (*kāryakke karttarāda*) of the great head minister (*mātra-śirah-pradhānan*) Vāraṇāsi Varadappaṇṇa was Kaṇṇappa Nāyaka. His son Tamma Nāyaka caused a new car to be made for the god Hanumantēśvara, lord of Vahnipura, together with new images of Umā-Skandēśvara, Vighnēśvara and other attendant gods, and in order that this car festival might be permanent, granted specified paddy fields and 900 areca trees. The same epigraph relates that "Tippammā added other similar grants for the same god." We cannot determine who was this lady.³