maharaya

Updated: May 16, 2025

And yet, even so late as the years 1792 and 1793, I find a loyal Reddi in the south, in recording on copper-plates some grants of land to temples, declaring that he did so by permission of "Venkatapati Maharaya of Vijayanagar;" while I know of eight other grants similarly recognising the old Hindu royal family, which were engraved in the eighteenth century.

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