[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900) › c19.62 # A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.62 A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.62 - **Language:** English ### [c19.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.62) In the time of Achyuta a large number of grants were made by the nobles to temples throughout Southern India, and numerous inscriptions on stone and copper-plates are extant relating to these charitable and religious donations. One of the most important has been published by Professor Kielhorn.¹ It relates that the king, being on the banks of the Tungabhadra on the 12th October A.D. 1540, at the temple of Vitthalasvâmi or Vitthalêśvara—the splendidly sculptured pavilions of which remain to this day, even in their ruin and decay, an object of astonishment and admiration to all beholders—gave a grant of a village not far from Madras to the Brahmans learned in the Vêdas. - [Previous: c19.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.61) - [Next: c19.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.63) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.62) · Pramāṇa