Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.34

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Mr. T. A. Gopinatha Rao has brought forward another view in the following words: "It was more likely at the advice of Vidyāraṇya's guru Vidyātirtha that Harihara I built the city of Vijayanagara"⁷. Dr. S. Krishnaswamy Aiyangar thinks that "it was possibly about this period (ie., in about A.D. 1328-29) that he (Vira Ballāḷa III) went farther afield from Dvārasamudra and laid the foundations of the city generally called Hosapaṭṭaṇa or Virūpākṣapaṭṭaṇa, which ultimately became Vijayanagara, to secure his northern frontier"⁸. The Rev. Father Heras agrees with this conclusion of Dr. Aiyangar,¹ although in the same work (The Beginnings of Vijayanagara History) he approaches nearest to the accurate date when he says: "Bukka I is the real founder (in 1368) of Vijayanagara south of the Tungabhadra".²