Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.163

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For celebrating the Śrījayanti festival an interesting donation was made in Śaka 1460 (A. D. 1538-9). The record informs us that a gift of 100 paṇam was made for celebrating the day on which Kṛṣṇa was born. It was laid down that the image of Kṛṣṇa should be represented as a child drinking milk placing the conch at the mouth. The gift was engraved on stone in the name of Vaḍa Tiruveṅgaḍajiyar, the Kōyil-Kēlvi, at the instance of Kandāḍi Rāmānujañjiyangār, one of the managers of the temple of Arulāḷa Perumāḷ, Little Conjeeveram.² In A. D. 1557 Jayakāra Rāmappayya and Rāyasta Veṅkaṭādri made a grant of one share in the rent-free agrahāra Triyambakapura, which is Sānehaḷḷi of the Halebiḍ-sthala, for the Kṛttikā illumination festival of Chennigarāya of Vēlāpuri. The same record tells us that they gave five ghaṭṭi (solid) gadyāṇa to Nambi Siṅgapaya, for a charapi at the Gōkulāṣṭami festival, when the Svāmi visited the Nāgi-Nāyaka Maṇṭapa. A vṛndāvana to the south of the Biṭasamudra tank was also granted (to the tempte) on the same occasion.³