Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.85
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.85
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Sometimes a car festival was held for fifteen days. A record dated A. D. 1562 relates that Kṛiṣhṇappa Nāyaka's agent Vēlūr Kaḷappa Nāyaka's son Mārggasahāya Nāyaka rebuilt the village of Gaṅganarasi and granted it free of all imports for the purpose of providing a car festival for the fifteen days of Chaitra-śuddha in the temple of the god Harihara. We may also note that the same inscription gives us the reason why Mārggasahāya Nāyaka granted the village. "He who made petition to Mārggasahāya Nāyaka for the village of Ganganarasi for the car festival of the god Harihara and the goddess Lakshmī and caused the village to be restored and granted, was Chaduparāla Koṇḍama Rāja's son, Sūrappaiya. Great good fortune to him."¹ This last statement suggests that Sūrappaiya had conferred a boon on the temple and the people.