Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.191

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In *The Accounts of Tirumala-Naicker and of his Buildings*, we are told that Tirumala Nāyaka took over the charge of the famous Mīnākshi temple at Madura. "Having assumed the management, he provided especially for the apartment appropriated to the temple goddess, by endowing it with land, yielding revenue to the annual amount of twelve thousand *puṇs*; and from the first day of Tai month of *Isvara* year, on the Magara Sangranthi (or Poṅgal feast) he gave up the charge of purveyor to *Puvennatha-Pandaram* the son of the hereditary female lamp-lighter in the temple."⁴