Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s3.88

v1.c7.s3.88

We have seen how these rulers were eager to refer their humble origin to the acknowledged royal lineage of the Hoysalas, and their consequent Yādava claims. Further, it has also been remarked how they governed in their early years from one of the Hoysala capitals, Hosapaṭṭaṇa. They ruled over the Hoysala territories as well. In A.D. 1346 Hiriya (Senior) Hariappa Oḍeya was ruling the earth from the Hoysaṇa country.³ In A.D. 1352 we have Bukaṇṇa ruling at Dōrasamudra and Penu-goṇḍa.⁴ Bukka I is represented as a Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara ruling over the Hoysaṇa country.⁵ In A.D. 1353 he is ruling from Hosapaṭṭaṇa, the royal city of, possessed of all titles, Nijagali Kaṭaka Rāya.⁶ This Hosapaṭṭaṇa can be no other than the Hosapaṭṭaṇa where Ballāḷa III performed the yuvarājābhishēka ceremony of his son.