Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c6.52

c6.52

Writing on Tirumala, Kṛṣṇa Śāstri thinks that he abdicated his throne in favour of his son Śrī Raṅga I.³⁰ He quotes the *Vasucaritramu* in support of his statement, but in that work it is simply stated that Tirumala anointed Śrī Raṅga as the *Yuvarāja*.³¹ This is confirmed by another work called *Śrutarañjani*, a commentary on the *Gītagovinda* by Tirumala Rāya himself. It shows that the royal author left the administration of his empire in the charge of his sons and spent his time amidst poets and literary men.³² This, too, cannot be construed to mean that Tirumala abdicated his throne.