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‘Having conquered all the world, he (Bukka-Rāja) built a splendid city called the City of Victory (Vijayanagari). Its four walls were like arms stretching out to embrace Hema-kuṭa. The points of the battlemants like its filaments, the suburbs like its blossom, the elephants like bees, the hills reflected in the water of the moat like stems,—the whole city resembled the lotus on which Lakshmī is ever seated.’—(*Ep. Carnat.*, Vol., v, Part 1, Channarayapatna Taluq, no. 256; Roman Text, p. 521, lines 1–6; Transl., p. 732, para. 2, line 4.)