Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.69
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.69
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3. The *copper-plate grant from Hassan*. The name of the capital Vijaya given in this grant may refer to Vijayasamudra or Vijayanagara itself. The former was the capital of Vira Ballāḷa in about A.D. 1200. It is also said to have been on the bank of the Tuṅgabhadrā.³ But in all likelihood the name Vijaya refers to the Vijayanagara. This we infer from the name of the queen Gaurāmbikā. In early Vijayanagara history the only queen who was called by that name was the wife of Bukka I. The king, therefore, whose name is effaced in the grant, could only have been Bukka I; and it is rightly said that his capital was Vijaya.