Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c10.s2.44

c10.s2.44

The governors were entitled to certain honours. They were allowed to use litters and palanquins, as is indicated by the evidence of Nuniz.⁹⁷ The inscriptions of the period also refer to a few of the honours which they received from the king. A record in the Goribidnūr taluk of the Kōlār district says that the Vijayanagar emperor (Mallikārjuna ?) conferred on a few of his feudatories the following honours : horse, umbrella, cāmara, bhūmipeṇḍe and three howdah elephants.⁹⁸ Similarly Nandēla Appa, the governor of Koṇḍavīḍu, was given the right to use a palanquin and two cauris.⁹⁹