Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s2.30

v1.c7.s2.30

The prompt action of the founders of Vijayanagara, and the fact of there being no revolution against them, need now to be explained. It may be argued that the Hoysalas acquiesced in the growing power of the new-comers,—two of whom, Harihara and Kampaṇa (the sons of the third of the five brothers, Bukka) had already seen service under Ballāḷa III, the former as the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara probably over a region which included Kukkala-nāḍu, and the latter, according to the local chronicles of Madura, as the door-keeper of Vira Ballāḷa III,¹—out of sheer political necessity, or because of some alliance between themselves and the rising feudatories, the nature of which may be hypothetically summarized to be as follows.