Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c6.s2.11

c6.s2.11

Karaṇikkam is another office which is frequently mentioned in the Vijayanagar inscriptions. The word karaṇikkam means an accountant. There was scarcely an institution or office during the Vijayanagar times which was without its staff of karaṇikkams. Even the office of the Rāya’s harem had its karaṇikkam. Mangarasayya, the Vāśal karaṇikkam of Immaḍi Narasimha and Kṛṣṇa Rāya, is mentioned in a few inscriptions of the North Arcot district,¹³³ which indicate that the Vāśal karaṇikkas had some sort of connection, which it is difficult to determine at present, with the provincial government.