Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c5.6

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² About the origin of the city and the empire of Vijayanagar there has been a good deal of controversy among scholars. There are two schools of opinion on the question, one holding that the empire was of Karṇāṭaka origin and the other holding that it was of Teliṅgāṇa origin. See in this connection Sewell, *A Forgotten Empire*, p. 23; Rice, *Epigraphia Carnatica*, Vol. vi, Intro., p. 21; S. K. Aiyangar, *South India under the Muhammadan Invaders*, pp. 171 and 181-83; H. Krishna Śāstri, *A.S.R.*, 1907-08, p. 236; 1909-10, p. 160; T. A. Gopinatha Rao, *Epigraphia Indica*, Vol. xv, p. 84; R. Satyanatha Ayyar, *The Nayaks of Madura*, pp. 3-4; Rev. H. Heras, *The Beginnings of Vijayanagara*, pp. 1-43; Dr. B. A. Saletore, *Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire*, Vol. I, pp. 82-112; S. Srikantaya, *Founders of Vijayanagara*, p. 3. Contra Dr. N. Venkata Ramanayya, *Kampili and Vijayanagara*, pp. 21-33; *Vijayanagara The Origin of the City and the Empire*, pp. 3-52. While all other scholars are agreed on the point that the empire was founded about the year 1336 Dr. Saletore argues that it was founded only ten years later, in 1346: op. cit., pp. 82-112.