Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s1.8

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But their rivals in the north, the Yādavas, who vied with the Hoysalas for the sovereignty over the Karṇāṭaka on the break-up of the Kaḷachuriya Empire, failed to close their gates against greedy invaders; while the feudatories of the Hoysalas in the south, if tradition be true, called in the aid of the very enemy who was breaking the barriers of the Hindu kingdom in the north. The Yādavas, who had at one time claimed descent from "the same original stock with the Hoysalas,"¹ ruled from Dēvagiri, the modern Daulatabād, near Aurangābād. For many years, the successors of Siṅghaṇa I, the founder of the dynasty, measured swords with the Hoysalas for the supremacy over the Karṇāṭaka. In Śaka 1193 (A.D. 1271-2) Rāmachandra, the son of Kṛishṇa, ascended the throne.² He kept up the tradition of hostilities against the Hoysalas; and in Śaka 1199 (A.D. 1277) his general Sāḷuva Tikkama became famous as the "Overthrower of the Hoysala King". The Yādava sway under Rāmachandra "extended over all the dominions in the central and southern parts of the Bombay Presidency, of the dynasties that had preceded his".³