Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.53

v1.c9.s2.53

6. The story of Vidyāraṇya is also mentioned in an inscription dated A.D. 1652: "Formerly, the (original) guru of our line, author of Vēda-Bhāshya, Vidyāraṇya Srīpāda, out of charity to the world, through the boon obtained by virtue of his penance from (the god) Virūpāksha dwelling on the banks of the Pampā, having founded Vidyānagara,—for the protection of the cows, gods, and Brahmanas performed the coronation anointing of Harihara-mahārāya to the throne".³