Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.15

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² Basava Rāja of Keḷadi, *Siva-tattva-ratnākara*, Kallōla IV, 29-56. (Ed. by B. Rama Rao and Sundara Sastri). For another modern account of the foundation of the city see *Keḷadi-nṛipa-Vijaya* by Liṅgaṇṇa. (Ed. by Dr. R. Shama Sastry), pp. 15-17. (Uny. of Mysore, Oriental Library publication, No. 9). A palm-leaf version of the same work which is in the India Office Library, contains some very slight variations, but is substantially the same. It may be interesting to know that in the *kāvya* called *Keḷadi-nṛipa-Vijaya*, Harihara and Bukka are described to have come from the north. ಕತಿಪಯ ದಿವಸ: ವಶಿಸುತೃಮಿರಲಾಗಿ ಉತ್ತರದೇಶದಿಂ ಸಹೋದರರಾದ ಹರಿಹರಬುಕ್ಕರೆಂಬ ಬಡ ಕ್ಷತ್ರಿಯರು ಯಾ ದಕ್ಷಿಣರಾಜ್ಯ ಕೈತಂದು ಕುರುಬರಲಿ ಸಂತತನ ಮಾಡಿ ಹೆಂಡು ತಂದು ಮದುವೆಯಾಗಿ ಸುಖಿವಾಸಿಗಳಾಗಿ ಯಿರುತ್ತಮಿರಲಾಗಿ... India Office copy. Cf. Liṅgaṇṇa's version, p. 15. Liṅgaṇṇa, who is supposed to have been the author of *Keḷadi-nṛipa-kāvya*, lived somewhere in the first or last quarter of the seventeenth century. Liṅgaṇṇa, ibid., Intr., p. vi.