Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s1.94

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Merchants too instituted a car festival. An inscription dated Śaka 1519 (A. D. 1597-8) contains the information that the sacred car of the temple of Kakōḷanātha, Śrīvaikuṇṭham tālukā, Tinnevelly district, having been damaged, a new one was made in its place by the merchants of Iḷaiyāttakuḍi and that the income of the village of Peranallūr, viz. fifty *pon* and 500 *kalam* of paddy, was set apart to meet the cost of the annual car festival.¹