South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.25.2

c13.s1.25.2

He is further described in this record as the sole monarch by his own valour.⁵ In the following year a grant refers to the ‘ Paṭṭābhiṣheka (anointment) of the prince’ while Vīra Baḷḷāḷa was ruling.¹ This is apparently a reference to the coronation of the prince which, according to a Chikkamagaḷūr inscription, is said to have taken place at Hosapaṭṭaṇa. There is an inscription in the temple at Hampi referring itself to the Hoysalas, ² indicating thereby that Hampi was in the territory of the Hoysalas. There is further an inscription of A.D. 1354 (Śaka 1276) which states that Bukka was ruling from Hosapaṭṭaṇa. The next year he is said to be in Vidyānagara his capital. This series of facts would put it beyond doubt that Hosapaṭṭaṇa and Vidyānagara are the same Vīrupakshapaṭṭaṇa or Hampi, and that this had been recently fortified against eventualities sometime in or before A.D. 1339 ³ by the Hoysala Vīra Baḷḷāḷa III himself. It is clearly stated in another record of Bukka that it is after the conquest of all the kingdoms that Bukka changed the name of his capital city to Vijayanagar.⁴ It would be a safe inference therefore to make from this sequence of facts that Vīra Baḷḷāḷa III was apparently preparing himself for possible campaigns both on the northern frontier and on the southern, and had his son anointed against eventualities, though this could only have meant the anointment of the prince in the Yauva Rajya (heir-apparency) as Vīra Baḷḷāḷa is definitely stated to be ruling.