Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c19.182

c19.182

Bommakka, a satī, patron deity of the Toṭṭiyans, 254. Bommalāṭa, puppet show, 294. Bommarasa, author of the Soundara Purāṇa, 382. Brass workers, exempted from the payment of certain taxes, 96. Bṛhaspati, followed by Mādhava, for adjective law, 108. Brahmadeya, 42, 55; village, had a sabhā, 207, 208. Brahmans, alleged feelings against, 242-43; as administrators and ministers, 241; generally Daṇḍanāyakas, 197; dress and simplicity of, 243-44, 247; Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya on their appointment to administrative posts, 242, and on the expenses on, 99, 148; not to be molested by wars, according to ancient Dharma, 166; Nuniz on, and law, 113; occupation of, 241; of Malavaḷḷi, excommunication of the, for sale of property to Śūdras, 211; part of the, in the Mahānavamī festival, 339; place of, in society, 240-244; privileges of the, 240; resentment against certain traits in the character of the, 244; respected by Dēva Rāya II and Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, 240; vegetarians, 282; as viceroys and generals under Vijayanagar, 143-44; women among the, 263. Brahmasūtras, of Bādarāyaṇa, Brahmasūtravṛtti, a gloss on the, 361; deduced by Madhva, elaborated by Vādirāja in his Yuktimallikā, 370. Brahmasūtravṛtti, a gloss on the Brahmasūtras of Bādarāyaṇa, and written by Dēva Rāya II, 364. Brahmanya Tīrtha, guru of Vyāsarāya Tīrtha, 314. Brahmīśvara, same as Kulōttunga-soḷanallūr, a unit village, 189. Briggs, on the procuring of guns, 150. British, embassy to the, sent by Veṅkaṭa II, 174. Brown, on the origin of the Vipravinōdins, 244. Buchanan, on 'the farming of the State revenues, 80; on hook swinging, 346; on Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya's survey and assessment, 45-46; on the Right Hand and Left Hand groups, 250-51. Buddha, figure of, in the Hazāra Rāmasvāmi temple, 393. Buddhism in Vijayanagar, 317fn.