Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c6.8

c6.8

Coronation. In all Hindu kingdoms the coronation was an important ceremony. It provided the legal sanction to the selection of a ruler and conferred on him the title to govern. The Vijayanagar kings in common with the ancient Hindu kings had their coronations duly performed. The accounts of contemporary foreign travellers make mention of these coronations, and they receive confirmation from several inscriptions. On the death of Harihara II, however, three of his sons, Bukka II, who was the Yuvarāja during his father’s reign, Virūpākṣa II and Dēva Rāya I, each made a bid for the empire, assumed imperial titles and made grants independently of one another.⁴