Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s2.112

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There was boar-hunting too in Vijayanagara. This game was also prevalent in the Hoysala times. Sokka-Iliṅgattōn, we are told in a record dated about A. D. 1310 "having gone boar-hunting, pierced the boar and died, along with his dog".¹ The Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Vira Parvati Rāja Oḍeyar, brother of Dēva Rāya II, being on his horse called Pārvatinātha, "in the hunting plain at the ditch to the east of the hill of the god Tirumalenātha, in the Terakaṇāmbi kingdom which he was ruling, and seeing a boar, in order to seize it, crossed over the ditch." The epigraph, which unfortunately breaks off, relates, however, that Hulihara Hāyaṇṇa's son Hariyaṇṇa set up a pillar of victory as a signal stone (jayastambhada kuruhina kallu.)²