culled from the general drift of the Hindu legends combined with the
certainties of historical fact; and from this point of view we may
for the present suppose that two brothers, Hindus of the Kuruba caste,
who were men of strong religious feeling, serving in the treasury of
the king of Warangal, fled from that place on its sack and destruction
in 1323 and took service under the petty Rajah of Anegundi. Both they
and their chiefs were filled with horror and disgust at the conduct of
the marauding Moslems, and pledged themselves to the cause of their
country and their religion. The brothers rose to be minister and
treasurer respectively at Anegundi. In 1334 the chief gave shelter
to Baha-ud-din, nephew of Muhammad of Delhi, and was attacked by the
Sultan. Anegundi fell, as narrated by Batuta, and the Sultan retired,
leaving Mallik as his deputy to rule the state. Mallik found the
people too strong for him, and eventually the Sultan restored the
country to the Hindus, raising to be rajah and minister respectively
the two brothers who had formerly been minister and treasurer. These
were Harihara I. ("Hukka") and Bukka I.



The First Vijayanagar Dynasty

[The following shows the pedigree of this dynasty as given in the
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA (iii. p. 36). Inscriptions not yet satisfactorily
examined will probably add to the information given.]