Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c19.1162

c19.1162

Vēdānta Dēśika, philosopher and scholar, 5, 352; an avatār of the ghanṭa of Veṅkaṭanātha, 312; author of Adhi Karaṇu Sārāvali, 356, Āmalanādippiran, Hamsa Samdeśa, Nyāya Siddhāñjana, Rahasya traya sāra, (Tamil) Saṅkalpa Sūryodaya, Śatadūsaṇi, Subhāṣitanīvi, Tāparyacandrikā, Tattvamuktā Kalāpa, Tattvaṭīka, Yādavābhyudayam, Yatirājasaptati, 356-57, 328; and the Śrī Raṅganātha image at Śrīraṅgam, 301; and the controversy between Vidyāraṇya and Akṣobhyamuni, seclusion of, 305; leader of the Vaḍagalai sect, 312; literary activity beginning with, 305; reconsecration of the Gōvindarāja shrine at Cidambaram, by, 325 fn; Vedāntaparibhāṣā, a work of a Dīkṣita, according to Hultzsch, 372. Vedas, a source of law, 102. Vēgōḍu, chief of, 10. Veḷḷi Ambala Tambirān, a head of the Dharmapuram maṭha, 337. Vellore, (Vēlūr) architectural features of the temple and fort at, 7, 398; church established at, 318; a school established at, by Appayya Dīkṣita, 349; stay of Bartholomeo Fonte bona, a Jesuit painter, at, 413-414. Vēlugōṭi Timmappa Nāyanāru, the agent of Śrī Raṅga Rāya, 246. Vēlūr, see Vellore, 349. Vēmana, moralist and social reformer, on the Brahmans, 243; a zaṅgam poet, 380. Vēṅgalāmbā, queen of Tirumala I, 401. Vēṅgalappa Viśaiyālaya dēva, chief of Śūraikkuḍi, 140. Veṅkaṭa I, (Veṅkaṭādri), son of Acyuta, 366; lost his life in a palace revolution, 4; murdered by Salkam Rāju Tirumala, 18. Veṅkaṭa II, accession of, 14; had four lawful wives, 263; coronation of, performed by Tātayārya, 10; Bhaṭṭākalaṅkadēva, a court poet of, 383; coins of, 328; Ānanda Namaśśivāya Paṇḍāram, a contemporary of, 387; contemporary and patron of Tātācārya and Appayya Dīkṣita, 355, 368, 370, 378; court of, 271; embassy of, to the court of Ayres de Saladana, the Portuguese Viceroy, and the British traders at Masulipatam, 174; encouragement of education by, 350; garden party of, to his wives, 275-76; gift of land by, to Rāma Kṛṣṇa Josya, 352; grant of, to the Daraga of Babayya, 320; honoured Sudhindra Tīrtha, 371; in charge of a wing at Rakṣas Taṅgḍi, 152; and the Jesuits, 318; and the Jesuit painters, 413-14; the Kuvalayānanda written by Appayya Dīkṣita at the request of, 370; portrait of, in the temple at Tirumalai, 401; reign of, the golden age of Sanskrit and Telugu literature, 387; Viceroy ("Special Commissioner") of the Tuṇḍira (Jiñji), Cōḷa (Tanjore) and Pāṇḍya (Madura) countries with his capital at Candragiri, 186, 204-05; scholars during the time of, 328; the Svaramela kalānidhi written by Rāmayāmātya at the suggestion of, 297; Vaiṣṇavism under, 328-29; revelation of the weakness of feudal arrangement on the death of, 165. Veṅkaṭādri Rāja, son of Kṛṣṇa Rāja, 377. Veṅkaṭa Makhi, author of Caturdaṇḍiprakāśikā, 298. Veṅkaṭanātha, Vēdānta Dēśika, an avatār of the ghanṭa of, 312. Venkata Ramanayya, N., Dr., on the origin of Vijayanagar, 2 fn.; on the origin of the Vipravinōdins, 244. Veṅkaṭa Tātayārya, (Tātārya), appointment of, by Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, to enquire into social matters, 116-17; honoured by Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, 324. Veṅkaṭavilāsamantapa, the hall in which the Royal Council met, 27. Veṅkaṭēśa, God, at Tirupati, the Vij. kings devoted to, 321-322; the Amuktamālyada dedicated to, 374; grants of Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya to, 323; grants by Veṅkaṭa II made generally in the presence of, 328; Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya a staunch devotee of, 323, 401; temple of, improvements to, by Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, 401. Venkatesvara, S. V., on the character of wars in mediaeval India, 167; on the number of villages in the Vijayanagar empire, 278 fn., on the Svāmi that went to Nepal, 335 fn. Veṅkayya, on Vīra Vijaya, 13. Veṅkayya, author of the Rāmarājīyamu or Narapativijayamu, 380. Veṅrumān Śambuvarāyaṇ, taken captive by Gaṇḍaragūli Mārayya Nāyaka, 169. Venthe, (viṣaya or nirvṛtti) same as a kōṭṭam, an administrative division, 178, 182; Aragaventhe, revenue from five villages in, 55;