A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c20.44

c20.44

It will be observed that the inscriptions upon which the genealogical table given above, from the *Epigraphia Indica*, is founded do not yield any date between A.D. 1614 and 1634, when Pedda Venkata II. is named as king. In 1883 I published¹ a list of Vijayanagar names derived from reports of inscriptions which had then reached me. I am by no means certain of their accuracy, and it is clear that they must all be hereafter carefully examined. But so far as it goes the list runs thus:—