A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c11.19

c11.19

One has it that two brothers named Bukka and Harihara, who had been in the service of the king of Warangal at the time of the destruction of that kingdom by the Muhammadans in 1323, escaped with a small body of horse to the hill country about Ânegundi, being accompanied in their flight by the Brahman Mâdhava or Mâdhavâchârya Vidyâranya, and by some means not stated became lords of that tract, afterwards founding the city of Vijayanagar.¹