Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c14.41

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²² A record of A.D. 1377 mentions Singanna Odeya, the grandson of Kampana I, as a disciple of Ākāśavāsi Sāmavēdigāru. It is stated in the inscription that he received the initiation (upadeśa) of Bhuvanēśvari from that guru, and on that occasion he made a grant of the village of Perusalu to his guru (681 of 1917). The term Ākāśavāsi seems to be a variant of the more familiar term Ākāśamukhin which indicates that the members of this sect lived always mentally in heaven. But we do not have more details about them. See M.E.R., 1918, para 66; See also Monier Williams, Brahmanism and Hinduism, p. 88.