inscriptions in the hassan district

XXVIII INTRODUCTION.
contain some interesting accounts of a physician named Vaidya Devapille, who
like Dhanvantari was celebrated for his new .art of medicine (nUtanu-vaidyakald).
Ak. 13 implies that there was a prince named Somesvara in 1288.
The first inscription of Ballala III in this volume is Bl. 18 of 1292. Cn. 36
(Vol. VI) shows that he was crowned on the 1st of February 1292. There are
not many records of his reign, but we know that he went away to live in
Unnamale (Tiruvannamale in South Arcot), and the Hoysala dominions were
again united under him. Bl. 24 informs us that the wood-work of the dome
in the Belur temple was rotten and fallen, and the ministers had it repaired
in 1298. Hn. 61 and 62 contain the first notice of the Mussalraan invasions
which overthrew the kingdom. The Turukas are represented as marching
against Dorasamudra in 1310. Ak. 66 shows the king residing in Virupakshapattana
in 1330. It is not clear what place this was, but it was in the Mysore
country, and perhaps somewhere near Kanikatte, Ak. 31 records another
attack of the Turukas in 1331. The last Hoysala inscription here is Ak. 183
of 1338, in which we find the king directing the officer in command of his army
at Baiakur to remain at his post, which he promises to do, and receives a
grant in approval.
Vijayanagar.
The Vijayanagar inscriptions begin with Ak. 169, dated 1343, which
opens with an ultra-hyperbolic verse in praise of Siva. Were Sarada, it says,
to take for all time the earth as a leaf on which to write them, a twig from
the tree of the gods as a pen, and the ocean as a cup of black ink, even so
she would not exhaust the sum of thy virtues, Isa.
HN. 7 states that Sangama, the founder of the line, had by his union with
Sarada (Bl. 3) five sons,—Hanhara, Kampa, Bukka, Marapa and Muddapa.
The eldest son, who was the first king, is called in Cn. 266 Haryapa, and it
says that he appointed his younger brother Bukka-Raja as yuva-raja. In
Ag. 68 Bukkanna seems to be called his son and he himself ? Hukkanna.
His original name, according to tiadition, was Hakka. Hn. 19 says that
Bukka's eldest son was Tippa-Raja, who ? captured Uchchangi, and had a wife
Smgara-Devi.
Bukka-Raja on coming to the throne, Cn. 266 says, eclipsed all past and
future kings. When he was reigning, the earth brought forth abundantly, all
troubles ceased, the people were happy, and wealth increased. Having
conquered all the world, he built the splendid city of Vijayanagari, where,
with the Tungabhadra as his footstool and Hemakuta as his throne, he was
seated like Virupaksha for the protection of the earth. His minister was
Muddappa, to whom he committed the burden of the kingdom and remained at
ease like Vasudeva. Though he had many wives, his favourite one was