Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s2.18

v2.c25.s2.18

The name of this dancing-hall which Paes was fortunate enough to see cannot be determined from his account. But it is quite possible that it may have been called by the name *paṭṭada-nāṭaka-śāle* in the Karṇāṭaka. This we infer from an inscription dated A. D. 1599 which relates that Śṛingārammā, of the Eḷahaṅka-nāḍ Prabhu Immaḍi Hiri Keṃpaya Gauḍa's state dancing-saloon (*paṭṭada-nāṭaka-śāle*), founded Śṛinagārasāgara *agrahāra*.²