Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c15.19

c15.19

Encouragement was also given for the recitation of religious literature in the temples. In A.D. 1523 for example a gift of land to a particular individual was made, its object being the recitation of the Sanskrit Vedas, Draviḍa Vedas (*Prabandhams*) and the exposition of the Vedānta.¹³ Eleven years later Acyutayyadeva Mahārāya made a gift of land and a house for the merit of Periya svāmi Narasānāyaka to each of the two Vaiṣṇava Brahmans who recited the Purāṇam known as the Bhakti Sañjīvinī in the temple at Naraśiṅgapuram (Chingleput district).¹⁴