FOUND AT VIJAYANAGAR. 



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attributed to his brother Say ana Acharya. It is probable that Madhava was 

 rather the patron than the author of many of the works that bear his name, 

 a circumstance not uncommon in Hindu literature, but most of the works, 

 of which he or his brother is the reputed writer, specify their names and 

 characters, and describe Madhava as the minister of Sangama, the son of 

 Kampa, a prince whose power extended to the southern, eastern, and 

 western seas, the limits in fact of Vijaytmagar. The same passages shew 

 that Madhava continued to be minister to the sons of Sangama, or Bukka 

 and Harihara, and this relation to their predecessor is confirmed by vari- 

 ous inscriptions, as by one in the 9th volume of the Researches, and by the 

 inscription No. 11 of the present collection. The power of Sangama may 

 be exaggerated in the usual strain of Oriental flattery, but it is clear that 

 he ruled over part of the territories of the south, perhaps as a feudatory, 

 either of the Kalyana or JBeldl Rajas : and that upon the subversion of the 

 former, and the decline of the latter, he, or perhaps his successors, acquired 

 a degree of political power which may reasonably be regarded as the rudi- 

 ment of the future kingdom of Vijayanagar. 



The family pedigree furnished by Mr. Ravenshaw, in a strain not 

 peculiar to any age or country, deduce the royal dynasty from a lofty 

 source — or from the moon through the family of Pandu, counting 86 

 descents from Pandu to Nanda, the son of the sovereign of Hylemdis, who 

 was driven from his patrimonial possessions by foreign aggression, and 

 settled in Andlira or Telingana, where he founded Nandapuri in the Sali- 

 vdhana year, 956 or A.T). 1034. According to the genealogy, he subdued 

 the Avhole of the Peninsula from the Goddveri to Rdmeswara, an assertion 

 wholly incompatible with the history of the other dynasties of Princes, as 

 derived from local accounts and inscriptions. Nanda was succeeded by 

 Chalik Raya of Kalydn, who had three sons, Bijae, Bijay Raya of JBijaya- 

 nagar, and Vishnuverddhana, who had no principality. The direct line 

 of Vijayanagar continued for four descents to Bhup Raya, who dying in 



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