What was the primary purpose of the inscriptions authored by the kings of Vijayanagara and their nayakas?

1) To record day-to-day activities of the Kings
2) To document contributions to temples and important events
3) To preserve the city's trade agreements
4) To share travel experiences

Choose the most appropriate answer from the given options:

2

The correct answer is Option 2 -2

1) To record day-to-day activities of the Kings
2) To document contributions to temples and important events
3) To preserve the city's trade agreements
4) To share travel experiences

A large number of inscriptions of the kings of Vijayanagara and their nayakas recording donations to temples as well as describing important events have been recovered. Several travellers visited the city and wrote about it. Notable among their accounts are those of an Italian trader named Nicolo de Conti, an ambassador named Abdur Razzaq sent by the ruler of Persia, a merchant named Afanasii Nikitin from Russia, all of whom visited the city in the fifteenth century, and those of Duarte Barbosa, Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz from Portugal, who came in the sixteenth century.