Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c6.20

c6.20

Speaking about Dēva Rāya I Wilson writes: “His grants begin three years before those of the predecessor’s terminate. This circumstance recurs in the succeeding reign, making it probable that the practice prevailed which was common in the remote periods of Hindu history of a monarch’s associating with him towards the close of his reign, his son and successor as Yuvarāja or Cæsar.”⁹ Literary evidence also corroborates the prevalence of this system. The Acyutarāyābhyudayam of Rājanātha Diṇḍima says that with the coronation of Acyuta as emperor, Pina Veṅkaṭādri, the king’s son, was anointed the Crown Prince.¹⁰