Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c14.s2.22

c14.s2.22

Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya was an ardent worshipper of Viṭhōba. The Viṭhōba cult was a phase of Vaiṣṇavism that prevailed in the Mahārāṣṭra country. Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya consecrated a temple at his capital for this God of his heart. “If the scale and highly artistic nature of a shrine could alone determine the strength of the devotion of the builder to the enshrined, we might say that Viṭhōba had the highest place in Kṛṣṇadēva’s heart.”⁷⁸