Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s1.65

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The mention of Hariappa as a *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* presupposes that he was under Ballāla III, although in this incomplete and illegible inscription the name of the overlord is not given. This assumption is supported by the fact that Ballāḷa III not only performed the yuvarājābhi-sheka ceremony of his son, the future Ballāḷa IV in the same year A.D. 1340, but lived to fight another war against the Turukas in A.D. 1342 in which, as narrated above, he lost his life. The absence of the sovereign's name in the inscription may be explained by saying the Hariappa Oḍeya was perhaps empowered to issue grants in his own name.