Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.45

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This theory of Mr. V. Venkayya is supported by such references as are to be found in the inscriptions dated A.D. 1379 which say that Saṅgama was of the Yādava race;⁴ and that dated in A.D. 1463 wherein it is stated that Saṅ- gama of the Yāduvaṁśa enabled Lakshmi the Karṇāṭaka Dēsa to wear permanently her earrings.¹ This is repeated in the inscription dated A.D. 1474.² Mr. T. A. Gopinatha Rao, however, denies the Yādava descent on the following grounds: "A futile attempt was made by Mr. Venkayya to trace the origin of the Vijayanagara dynasty. Harihara II had a son named Virūpāksha. In certain inscriptions and in the Sanskrit drama called the Nārāyaṇavilasa, the latter is said to be the son of Harihara II by his queen Mallā Dēvi, who is said to be the daughter of a Rāma Dēva, whom Mr. Venkayya identifies with the Dēvagiri Yādava king Rama Dēva, inferring that, having strengthened his friendship with the Dēvagiri king by this marriage, Harihara II then established the Vijayanagara kingdom. Rāmachandra of Dēvagiri lived between S. 1193 and 1231; Harihara II, one of the younger sons of Bukka I, reigned between S. 1298 and 1326, just about a hundred years after Rāmachandra. Consequently, the surmise is quite unjustifiable".³