Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.56

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Sewell, however, remarks that the credit of resuscitating Hindu life is to be given to the house of Anegundi: "The check was caused by a combination of small Hindu states—two of whom already defeated, Warangal and Dvārasamudra—defeated, and therefore in all probability not over-confident; the third, the tiny principality of Anegundi. The solid wall consisted of Anegundi grown into the great Empire of the Vijayanagar. To the kings of this house all the nations of the south submitted".² This is partially correct when we realize the fact that the Beejanuggur of Firishtah refers to Vijayavirūpākshapura, named after the Vira Vijayavirūpāksha, son of Ballāla III, and built within the area of Anegundi which was the earliest capital of the founders of the Vijayanagara Empire.³