The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s7.4
The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s7.4
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c14.s7.4
Equally deified in folk-imagination was Kṛiṣṇa Deva Rāya the Great (1509-20) under whom the Vijayanagara Empire witnessed the zenith of its expansion. In the *Vyāsayogacharitam* the poet Somanātha describes the monarch's death as the departure of Lord Kṛiṣṇa from the ken of mankind at the end of His *avatārahood*.