why did the nayakas continued with the building tradition of the rulers of viyanagara
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(i) The amara-nayaka system was a major political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire.
(ii) It is likely that many features of this system were derived from the Iqta system of the Delhi Sultanate.
(iii) The amara-nayakas were military commanders who were given territories to govern by theraya.
(iv) The collected taxes and other dues from peasants.
(v) A share of revenue was spent for the maintenance of irrigation works and temples.
(vi) The amar nayak retained part of the revenue for personal use and for maintaining a stipulated contingent of horses and elephants.
(vii) These contingents provided the Vijayanagara Kings with an effective fighting force with which they brought the entire southern peninsula under their control.
(viii) The amara-nayakas sent tribute to the King annually and personally appeared in the royal court with gifts to express their loyalty.
(ix) Kings occasionally asserted their control over them by transferring them from one place to another.
(x) Many of these nayakas established independent kingdoms in the 17th century.
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