Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c14.s2.8

c14.s2.8

Under the Tuḷuva rulers, Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, Acyuta Rāya and Sadāśiva Rāya, Vaiṣṇavism gained a larger number of adherents. Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, though a staunch Vaiṣṇava, showed equal patronage to the Śaivas and made grants to the Śiva temples. In 1517-18 he made a substantial remission of certain items of revenue amounting to 10,000 poṇ in favour of the Śiva and Viṣṇu temples in the Cōḷamaṇḍalam. In 1517 he built the northern gōpura in the temple of the God Poṇṇambalanātha whom he worshipped at Cidambaram⁶⁸ᵃ on his southern tour after his successful campaigns