Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.166

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only have been the second of that name. It was this ruler, therefore, who may have built the famous diamond throne of the Hindu monarchs; and the people confounded the fact of the construction of the throne by Harihara II "in the name of Vidyāraṇya", with the fact of Harihara I's having built the capital itself. Perhaps there is some justification for this confusion when we remember that about the year A.D. 1378 Vidyāraṇya seems to have come to the capital, which in that year under the aegis of Harihara II was nearing its completion.