Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.186

v2.c25.s1.186

In Śaka 1512 (A. D. 1590-1) all the tenants of the temple villages of Ādikēśava Perumāḷ and Emberumāṇār, including those in Śrīperumbudur and Kachchippaṭṭu-śīmai in the Chingleput district, at the instance of Śirāmu Rāghava Nāyakar, granted a *kuṟum* of paddy from each threshing floor (*kaḷam*) to provide for offerings to Ādikēśava Perumāḷ and others, when they halted in the *maṇṭapa* in the arecanut garden on *tiruppādivēṭṭai* (i.e., hunting festival) days.¹