Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c19.661

c19.661

Navy, of Vijayanagar, 98, 165-66. Nāyaka, one who held lands from the king known as, 195; constitutional position of, compared with that of a governor, 196-7; control of the, 202-205; judicial organisation in the territories of, modelled on that at the imperial court, 111; maintenance of two sets of officers by, 197-98; performed satī, 260; police functions of the, 131; police and judicial powers of, 117; remission of taxes by, and their fixed contribution to the imperial exchequer, 89. Nāyankara system, the, under Vijayanagar, 195-202; and revenue collection, 82. Nazar, presentation of, 273. Neergaṇṭee, a village functionary, 218. Negapatam, (Nagapaṭāṇ) Salvanayque, lord of, 192. Nehal, refusal by, of the garland of Dēva Rāya, I, 265 fn. Nellāyam, a term used in the Cōḷa days, 75. Nellore, arrangements by Veṅkaṭappa Nāyuḍu for showing respect to the Pāñcālas at, 246. Nelmudal, 75. Nelson, views of, on the administrative system of the Nāyaks of Madura, 34fn. Nēminātha, a Jain Tīrthaṅkara, 412. Nettara gōḍage, grant of, by the state to aggrieved parties, 127. Neyvāśal, 115; punishment for the theft of a temple jewel at, 126-27. Nicholas Pimenta, on the seat of the Nāyak of Jiñji, 271-72. Nicolo dei Conti, an Italian, visit of, to Vijayanagar, 3; estimate of the Vijayanagar army by, 134; on the car festival, 342; on the dress of women, 286; on the Holi festivals, 343 and fn., 403; on hook-swinging, 345; on the Kārttigai festival, 342; on ordeals at Vijayanagar, 122; on the number of women in the harem, 264-65; on the size and form of Vijayanagar, 406, 407; on the Spring festival, 343, and fn.; on the supposed New Year Day, 341, and fn.; on the use of shoes by the people, 285; on the use of shoes by women, 287; on the use of wool, 285. Niḍūrttalapurāṇam, authorship of, attributed to Vaḍamalayar, 385.