Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.7

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Buchanan relates in the same manner: "In the year Sarvadavi of this Raja Worugulla Pritapa Rāya, the house guards of the treasury were Hari hara and Buca Rāya. According to this order, these two men came to Vijaya-nagara. The year Sarvadavi is the commencement of the kingdom of the Rāyarū. This year, on Monday, the 5th of Chaitra, they placed the pillar (a ceremony similar to ours of laying the foundation stone) for building Vijaya-nagara. The Rājās were placed on a throne of jewels".² These two traditions have led many to remark that "an off-shoot of the royal house of Warangal established a dynasty in the south, at the city of Vijayanagara on the Tumbadra. The name of Karnata fell into disuse",³ and that the greatest monarch of the family, Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya "was descended from an off-shoot of the royal family of Telingana".⁴