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THE VIJAYANAGARA EMPIRE developed, in its second half, into what is known as the nayaka state-system, in which administrative and political relations differed significantly from what had gone before.

D. South and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800 2001

Originally part of the great Telugu migrations southward into the Tamil country in the 15th and 16th centuries, Balija merchant-warriors who claimed these nayaka positions rose to political and cultural power and supported an ethos that emphasized nonascriptive, heroic criteria in legitimizing political power.

D. South and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800 2001

In the heyday of the Vijayanagara Empire, the center retained full control of the nayaka chiefs, receiving a third of the revenues collected in the territories assigned to the chiefs.

D. South and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800 2001

The nayakas established rule at Madurai, longest-lived of the nayaka “little kingdoms.

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” Also established were two other prominent nayaka centers at Tanjuvur (defeated by the 1670s) and the territory controlled by the Senji Nayakas (defeated by the 1630s, this territory passed first to Bijapur and then to the Mughals).

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It was necessary to discuss how best to treat each _nayika_ and _nayaka_ not only in Sanskrit but in Hindi poetry also, and to meet this situation Keshav Das, the poet of Orchha in

The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry W. G. Archer 1943

In this book, poems on love were analysed with special reference to Krishna -- Krishna himself sustaining the role of _nayaka_ or ideal lover.

The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry W. G. Archer 1943

It was written in Hindi, Keshav Das himself supplying both poems and commentary and what was even more significant, the _nayaka_ or lover was portrayed not as any ordinary well-bred young man but as Krishna himself. [

The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry W. G. Archer 1943

Theliyakane, 'Suruti, Rupaka, Patnam Subramania Iyer), they reflected the embarrassment of the nayika when her nayaka behaves inappropriately in public.

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