The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.165

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Bidyanagara—1. Bijayanagar on the river Tuṅgabhadrā, 36 miles north-west of Bellari, formerly the metropolis of the Brahmanical kingdom of Bijayanagar called also Karṇāṭa. It is locally called Hampi. It was founded by Saṅgama of the Yādava dynasty about 1320 A.D. According to the *Mackenzie Manuscripts* (*see* JASB., 1838, p. 174) it is said to have been founded by Narasingha Rayer, father of Krishna Rayor. Bukka and Harihara were the third and fourth kings from Saṅgama. For the genealogy of the Yādava dynasty, see *Ep. Ind.*, vol. III, pp. 21, 22, 114 and 223. It contains the celebrated temple of Viṭhoba (*Meadows Taylor's Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore*, p. 65) and also of Virūpāksha the *Goths*, the *Vandals*, the *Suevi*, the *Burgundians*, the *Alani*, the *Huns*, the *Franks*, the *Saxons*, the *Thuringians*, the *Rugians*, and the *Heruli*. The names of these tribes are familiar to the reader, but their origin, their migrations, and their settlements are involved in the deepest obscurity. The most probable opinion is that they were all of German or Scythian extraction, and that they had been driven from their native seats by the pressure of the Huns, a formidable nation of Tartars, who had crossed the Volga and the Tanais, and were advancing with rapid strides towards the frontiers of the Roman empire.