Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.166

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The Śivarātri festival is also referred to in the records. In the śasana of temple endowments and Brahman endowments caused to be written by Aubala Rāja Oḍeyar at the meritorious time of the Śivarātri, provision was made for the decorations, festivals, and illuminations of the god Harihara. The epigraph dated A. D. 1419, we may incidentally note, in addition to the details pertaining to the endowments also informs us that Rāma Gauḍa received certain specified land for 2000 areca trees as nāḍ-gauḍige.⁴ In A. D. 1548 Chikka Siṅgappa Nāyaka gave the villages Chikka-Gauḍubali and Gōvindanahaḷḷi in the Hāsana-sime for the Śivarātri car festival of the god Chennakēśava of Bēlūr.¹