Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s2.25

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⁴ E. C., III, Nj. 164, p. 112. It is interesting to observe that the epigraph which records a grant of land for the Īśāna-Īśvaram Uḍaiyar (of Gaṛikegāla?) contains the following on the pañcha-mahā-sabda. ". . . Also a gift of one tivari (trumpet), three, daṭṭa, three khaṇḍikke, one jaya-gaṇṭe (bell), and three kāḷe (horns) with grants to provide for the sounding of those pañcha-mahāśabda (five great instruments) three times a day." On the pañcha-mahāśabda, see I. A., V, pp. 251-354. On the horn kahaḷe, see Ep. Ind., V, p. 260, n. (3); I. A., XV, p. 352; I. A., XVIII, p. 359.