Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.39

v1.c9.s2.39

This opinion of Father Heras is different to that which he expressed in his earlier work, when he said that the glorious event of establishing the capital "may be placed about 1340".³ His later conclusions, as well as those of Mr. Gopinatha Rao, are correct in the main. But whereas the latter ignores the name of the real monarch who began the building of the capital, and does not enlighten us as to the exact date of its foundation, the former is not as conclusive as one would wish him to be, since in the opinion of Father Heras there was also a Vijayanagara on the northern bank of the river Tungabhadrā. We admit that we could refer the name Vijaya to, for instance, Vijayasamudra spoken of in the inscriptions as the capital of the Hoysalas,⁴ especially when we note that it agrees very well with the Beejanuggur which Firishtah describes as having been the city built by Ballāla III, and christened after his son Beeja (i.e., Vijaya—Vijaya Virūpāksha).