Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.102

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One of the principal officers of Bukka in A.D. 1369 was Vira Ballāḷa Rāya's Balavaṅkappa Nāyaka's chief Manneya, a Bhīma among royal champions, Rāya Nāyaka, "ruling the kingdom in Kundaūr durgam in the middle of the Koṅgu-nāḍu".⁴ It may even be suspected that the founders were desirous to carry on the Western Chālukya traditions as well. In A.D. 1387 we have a distant echo of a Western Chālukya name in Harihara's dharmma-manneya called the Chālukya Nārāyaṇa, Chāluki Chakravarti, etc., son of Mali Dēvi, and Vira Dēvarasa Vallabha Rāya Mahārāja.⁵ Even so late as A.D. 1426 an officer called Hole Koṅkaṇa, son of Siṁvarasa, under Dēva Rāya, is distinguished as the maintainer of the orders of the old kings of the Hoysala-nāḍu.⁶