Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.11

v1.c7.s3.11

Col. Mark Wilks, while narrating the capture of the city of Warangal by the Muhammadans, writes: "Two illustrious fugitives, Booka and Aka Hurryhur (i.e., Bukka and Hakka or Harihara respectively), officers of the treasury of the dethroned king of Warankul (i.e., Warangal), warned by one of those sacred visions which precedes, or is feigned to precede, the establishment of every Hindoo empire, formed the project of a new government, to be fixed on the banks of the Toombudra, a southern branch of the Kistna, under the spiritual and temporal guidance of the sage Videyarannea (Vidyāranya) . . . This origin of the new government at once explains the ascendency of the Telinga language and nation at this capital of Carnatic. . . . The government founded by foreigners was also supported by foreigners; and in the center of Canara, a Telinga court was supported by a Telinga army . . . "⁵