266 Manual of the nilagiri district. 



CHAP. XI. be that of the State. This king was succeeded by his son Yira 

 Early Narasiniha (1145-1188), who seems to have been engaged chiefly 

 History, in wars in the south, supporting the Chola against the Pandya 

 kings. ^ He was followed by Vira Bellala and Vira Narasimha, to 

 whom reference has already been made. The latter monarch seems 

 tp have changed the State religion to that of Siva.^ His successor 

 was Bellala Kaja, whose son, Someswara, followed him. During] 

 his reign the power of the Bellalas began to wane, and they seem] 

 to have received a crushing defeat in the Konkan. The Hdjas of] 

 Kerala and Chola rebelled, and finally, in the reign of Narasimha, 

 Someswara's son (1268-1308), the dynasty succumbed to the! 

 attack of the Moslems under Kafur, the vizier of Ala-ud-Dinj 

 of the house of Khilji (1295-1316). Their capital, Dora-sama- 

 dra, was sacked, and the Bellala king is said to have been carried] 

 captive to Delhi. ^ This chief's conquests extended as far south] 

 as Madura. These Mahommadan chiefs held sway for forty-eight] 

 years, until the people were delivered from the hateful yoke by] 

 the prowess of a Kanarese or Mysore chief Kampana Wodea, who] 

 was probably in the service of the Rdja of Vijayanagar.* 



Vijayanagar. g^^ the Moslem conquest was not yet to bring the Hindus of] 

 the south under complete subjection. Dissensions at Delhi had 

 enfeebled the administration in the distant provinces, and the] 

 fresh generation of Hindus in the Dekhan had forgotten the] 

 terrible punishment which followed the revolt in 1320. So in] 

 1347 a fresh uprising took place, in which both Mussulmans and] 

 Hindus joined. The outcome was the establishment of an inde-] 

 pendent Mussulman kingdom, with its capital at Kalburga, by] 

 Hasan Gangu, the founder of the Bahmani dynasty, and the] 

 creation of two Hindu states, those of Telingana and KdrnataJ 

 With the latter only are tve concerned. Its capital was Vijayana-j 

 gar, the city of victory (corrupted from Vidydnagara, the city' 

 of learning), on the south of the Tungabadra, opposite Anegundi, 

 the ancient seat of the mysterious Yavanas or lonians. Here 

 also was situated Kishkindha of the mythic age. The founders of 

 this kingdom, which was destined to dominate the whole of the 

 South Dekhan and the peninsula, were Bakka and Hakka, or 

 Harihara, sons of Sangama, probably a petty Kdrnata chief of 

 Kurumba origin. Their minister was the sage Mddhava, a 

 disciple of Sankya Acharya, who was probably " connected with 

 the Sringagiri ^ establishment, the members of which, alarmed 

 by the increasing numbers of the Jangamas and Jains, and the 



» Mysore Gazetteer, Vol. I, p. 218. 



* Descriptive Catalogue, Vol. 1, csl. 



3 Talboys Wheeler, Vol. IV, Ist 1, p. 63. 



* Nelson's Manual, Part III, pp. 81. 82. 



* In the Kfldur District, Mysore, the chief seat of the S»va priests. — Gazetteer. 

 Mysore, Vol. I, p. 379. 



