Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.89

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Provision was also made for the celebration of the car festival held in the month of Tai (January). Avasaram Aṇṇama-rasayya granted the taxes collected from the villages Śatayā-bharaṇanallūr and Suṇṇavūru for offerings in the temple of Tiruvīraṭṭāṉēśvara at Tiruvaḍi, South Arcot district, during the early morning service and for conducting the car festival in the month of Tai. The inscription which gives this information is dated only in the cyclic year Vikṛiti, but refers us to the reign of Sāḷuva Narasiṅga Rāya.²