Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s2.51

v1.c7.s2.51

"In the Kali age, evil having greatly increased, Dharma seeing that it was impossible for it to move about, went to the side of its master, the creator and benefactor of the world, and said: 'With only one leg (left), how can I travel about in the troubles of this Kali age? Show some mercy, lord, yours it is to remove the difficulties of those who bow before you.' Hearing this from Dharma, the Father (tāta) being favourable to the prayer he thus for a long time presented, made in the great royal line of which Sailaṅka was the lord, a king named Saṅgama".¹ Another epigraph gives the ideal in clearer terms. It is dated in the year A.D. 1376, and it runs thus: "In the world Achyuta (Kṛiṣhṇa) was born to Yasōdha and Naṅda Gōpa, and gave them a promise that he would eventually re-appear as a king to deliver the world when it was overspread by Mlēchchhas. Accordingly he was born in the region of Pampāpuri to Saṅgama and his wife Kāmābikā as Bukka-mahipati".²