Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.174

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Some of the Tamil festivals deserve special notice, since the gifts made in order to maintain them show the good feeling that existed between the Karṇāṭaka and Tamil people. A record dated Śaka 1433 (A. D. 1511-12) informs us that the great Madhvaguru Vyāsatirtha, the disciple of Brahmanyatirtha, gave the village of Pūlambākkam in Vaḍapā-nāḍu in Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Sōḷamaṇḍalam, as a gift for celebrating the festival in the month of Āvaṇi (August) to the temple of Arulāḷa Perumāḷ, Chingleput district. The village which was thus granted had been received by the donor as a gift from Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya. He also made a gift of the serpent-vehicle to be carried in procession on the 4th day of all festivals.⁵