Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.83

v1.c7.s3.83

Secondly, whether Vīra Ballāḷa III, as we have it on the evidence of inscriptions which we have already seen, would have allowed Harihara and Bukka to enter into his service, especially when he knew that both of them had held the office of treasurers in the government of his worst Hindu enemy, the Rāja of Kampila. One fails to see how Ballāḷa III could ever have made Harihara his *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara*, or Kampa, the son of Bukka I, his door-keeper, if the Hoysala ruler was aware of the former having served in the government of Kampila.