Kaladgi district, north of the Malprabha, a country that had been
overrun by Muhammad Taghlaq. That this was not a mere empty boast
is shown by the fact that a fort was built in that year at Badami by
permission of Harihara.

And thus we see the first chief of Vijayanagar quietly, and perhaps
peacefully, acquiring great influence and extensive possessions. These
so rapidly increased that Bukka's successor, Harihara II., styles
himself RAJADHIRAJA, "king of kings," or emperor.

But to revert to the first king Harihara, or, as Nuniz calls him,
"Dehorao," for DEVA RAYA. He reigned, according to our chronicle,
seven years, "and did nothing therein but pacify the kingdom, which
he left in complete tranquillity." His death, if this be so, would
have taken place about the year 1343. Nuniz relates that he founded
a temple in honour of the Brahman hermit, his protector. This was
the great temple at Hampe close to the river, which is still in full
preservation and is the only one among the massive shrines erected
at the capital in which worship is still carried on; the others were
remorselessly wrecked and destroyed by the Muhammadans in 1565. As
already stated, the traveller Ibn Batuta refers to this king under
the name of "Haraib" or "Harib" in or about the year 1342. If the
traditions collated by Nuniz, according to which Harihara I. lived at
peace during the seven years of his reign, be true, his death must
have occurred before 1344, because in that year, as we learn from
other sources, Krishna, son of Pratapa Rudra of Warangal, took refuge
at Vijayanagar, and, in concert with its king and with the surviving
Ballala princes of Dvarasamudra, drove back the Muhammadans, rescued
for a time part of the Southern Dakhan country, and prepared the way
for the overthrow of the sovereignty of Delhi south of the Vindhyas. I