Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.188

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More important than the above are the *Mahāmāgha* and *Poṅgal* festivals. An inscription dated A. D. 1523-4 tells us that the Emperor Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya visited Arigaṇḍapuram (another name of Nāglāpuram in the Chingleput district) on his way to Kumbhakōṇam for the *Mahāmāgha* festival.² The same monarch gave the proceeds of the taxes *jōḍi* and *śūlavari* amounting to ninety *pon*, as related in an inscription dated Śaka 1440, expired, Dhātṛi (A. D. 1517), in favour of the temple of Soṇṇavāraṛivār, on the occasion of the *māmāṅgam* festival at the request of Basavarasa of Tiruppeyarrūr in Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam.³