Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.1

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The stories in connection with the origin of the city of Vijayanagara are to be found in tradition, in the accounts of foreign travellers and in the inscriptions. These have led almost all writers on Vijayanagara history to conclude that the city was built by Harihara I with the aid of Vidyāraṇya. The different versions of the construction of the capital which recall, however, the memory of the performance of a great event by the rishis of old,¹ deserve to be dealt with in detail before we examine them on the strength of contemporary evidence. Mr. Sewell enumerates them thus: