Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c6.15

c6.15

The ministers appear to have had a voice in the selection of the king and as such they took an important part in his anointment. Nay, we have the testimony of inscriptions to show that it was the ministers that had the coronation performed. Sāḷuva Timma who had a partiality for Kṛṣṇa Rāya played the role of chief minister and crowned him king on the death of Vīra Narasimha. A lithic record from the Nāgamaṅgalam taluk in the Mysore district supplies us with the interesting information that Sadāśiva Mahārāya was anointed king by Rāma Rāja, the Prime Minister, and the other chief ministers, (amātya tilakaiḥ).⁷