Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.81

v2.c25.s1.81

¹ Veiga, Purchas, Pilgrims, X, pp. 220-1. This shrewd Jesuit, who in those orthodox days would never have been able to enter even the outer precincts of a temple, must have observed the whole proceeding from outside in order to note "the meate (which) was set downe" "before the Idoll". He is evidently referring to the usual naivēdyas of a temple. B. A. S.