Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c14.s3.2

c14.s3.2

In mediaeval India the temple and the maṭha were two important institutions that played a prominent part in the religious life of the people. While the former stood as a symbolic expression of the religious impulse of the people, the latter was an institution that stood for the propagation of certain schools of thought and the imparting of religious education in the particular way which was agreeable to the founder.