Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c14.17

c14.17

⁷ See Madhurāvijayam, pp. 12-25; Taylor, Or. His. Mss., II, p. 111; 18 of 1899; S. K. Aiyangar, South India under the Muhammadan Invaders, p. 116. The Pāṇḍyan Chronicle describes in vivid colours how the temple looked when it was opened by Kampaṇa. It says: “Then things were found precisely as on the day when the temple was shut; the lamp that was lighted on that day, the sandal wood powder, the garland of flowers, and the ornaments usually placed on the morning of festival days were now found to be exactly as it is usual to find them on the same evening of such festival days.” (Taylor, Or. His. Mss., I, pp. 35-7).