The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c18.28

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No inscription has hitherto been discovered stating that Ranga ruled at Chandragiri. What is more puzzling is an inscription of Podili, Nellore District, that records a grant of a village by a private person ‘while Ranga was ruling at Vijayanagara’, in 1575-6 ⁹. We feel sure that the capital of the Empire was never removed again to the imperial city on the Tungabhadra. Two inscriptions of these same years, mentioned above record his domicile at Penukonda. He may have visited the ancient capital of his predecessors in the course of one of his expeditions against the Muhammadans, but this would not imply his ‘ruling at Vijayanagara’; probably, the traditional capital was here mentioned out of the regard which the kings still cherished for that city.