Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c19.1100

c19.1100

Temples and the mathas in Vijayanagar, 331-338; maintained by royal benefaction and public patronage, 225; a centre of cultural and economic activity, 5, 206; authorities of the, protectors of the interests of the tenants, 226; mortgage of temple lands by the, 227; and conferment of honours on individuals, 229; and tax collection, 225-26; dancing girls attached to, 269; encouragement of education by, 332-33, 349-50, 351; encouragement of industries by, 228-29; kings crowned in the, 333; place of the, in local government, 225-229; purchase of lands by, 92, 96; relation of the, to the Sabhā, 214-15; right of the authorities of, to purchase and sell lands for, 226-27; servants in the, 331-32; treasury in the, a local bank, 92, 227-28; trustees of, and the administration of justice, 228.