Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.28

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Secondly, granting that Pratāpa Rudra did send some of his relatives to the south, it is difficult to understand how these royal persons failed to keep up a royal practice. According to the Hindu lawgivers, the genealogical portion of grants must give the names of at least three generations.¹ If the founders of Vijayanagara were really of the royal line of Warangal, both according to the direction of the lawgivers and according to the usage of the land over which they ruled, they would certainly have given the names of at least three generations of rulers who preceded them either in the direct or in the indirect line. But all the inscriptions of the founders hitherto discovered carry the traditions only as far as Saṅgama, the father of the five brothers. The absence of the famous principle laid down by the Sanskrit lawgivers, which the Vijayanagara monarchs themselves carried out,—as they did many a great precept of the ancients,—is enough to disprove the connection between the first dynasty of Vijayanagara and that of Warangal.