retired northwards. The country rose against the usurpers, and after a
time the Sultan restored the principality to the Hindus, but made a new
departure by raising to be Raya the former chief minister Deva Raya,
called "Deorao" or "Dehorao" by Nuniz. He reigned seven years. During
his reign this chief was one day hunting amongst the mountains south of
the river when a hare, instead of fleeing from his dogs, flew at them
and bit them.[27] The king, astonished at this marvel, was returning
homewards lost in meditation, when he met on the river-bank the sage
Madhavacharya, surnamed VIDYARANYA or "Forest of Learning," -- for so
we learn from other sources to name the anchorite alluded to -- who
advised the chief to found a city on the spot. "And so the king did,
and on that very day began work on his houses, and he enclosed the
city round about; and that done, he left Nagumdym, and soon filled
the new city with people. And he gave it the name VYDIAJUNA, for so
the hermit called himself who had bidden him construct it."[28]

Thus, in or about the year A.D. 1336, sprung into existence the great
city which afterwards became so magnificent and of such wide-spread
fame.

The chronicle continues by saying that the king constructed in the
city of Vijayanagar a magnificent temple in honour of the sage. This
temple I take to be the great temple near the river, still in use
and known as the temple of Hampi or Hampe, having a small village
clustering about it. On the rocks above it, close to a group of more
modern Jain temples, is to be seen a small shrine built entirely,
roof as well as walls, of stone. Everything about this little relic
proves it to be of greater antiquity than any other structure in the
whole circuit of the hills, but its exact age is doubtful. It looks
like a building of the seventh century A.D. Mr. Rea, superintendent