Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.106

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The Karṇāṭaka mould in the Vijayanagara mind is shown in the inscription dated A.D. 1359 which runs thus: "When the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara etc. Vira Bukkaṇṇa Voḍeyar was ruling a peaceful kingdom, that Bukkaṇṇa Voḍeyar's Senior . . . Teppada Nārāyaṇa Oḍeyar, and Tipaṇṇa Oḍeyar (with various laudatory titles) unwilling to give up Sosevūru, situated in the Kali-naḍiyamma-nāḍu Four-thousand, which is reckoned the Kākare-nāḍ of the Pariya ghaṭṭa (or? Western Ghats) . . ."¹ The unwillingness of the founders of Vijayanagara to give up Sosevūru, the birthplace of the Hoysalas, may be explained on the supposition that they wished to retain this famous place under their immediate personal supervision, in order that they might always associate their own name with that of their illustrious predecessors, between whom and themselves there was so much in common. And when we have noted the matrimonial alliance between a Vijayanagara princess and a representative, though not on the throne, of the Hoysala house, this desire to retain the birthplace of the Hoysalas under the royal authority is well understood.