Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s2.46

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The tradition of conducting musical performances in temples was continued under the Vijayanagara kings. In A. D. 1363, the sole manager (sarva-nirvāhakan) of Kampaṇa Oḍeyar's palace, Abhaṅga Garuḍa NārāyaṇaChakrakōla Vijaya Chūḍāmaṇi Duggaṇṇa, granted certain specified offerings for the worship of the gods Vāḷavanda-perumāḷ and Villiyār of Veḷḷiyūr alias Śrī-Viṣṇuvardhana-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. The grant also made provision for the vocal and instrumental music in the temple,¹ Kallarasiyammā, the wife of a Nāyaka whose name is effaced in a record dated A. D. 1470, repaired the shrine of the god Sidda-Mallikārjuna, erected a *bhōgamaṇṭapa* and for the decorations and enjoyments of the same god provided thirty vessels and granted lands. The epigraph relates that singers and players on the tambourine was also made over to the temple.²