eldest was Harihara himself, the second Kampa, and the third Bukka. We
want to know who succeeded Harihara. There is extant an inscription
of Bukka dated in 1354, and there is this Nellore inscription dated in
1356. The latter comes from a far-off country near the eastern coast,
and it relates that Kampa succeeded Harihara, and that Samgama II.,
son of Kampa, succeeded his father, and granted a village in the
Nellore district to the Brahmans on a date which corresponds to May
3, A.D. 1356. It implies that Samgama had succeeded his father Kampa
exactly a year previous to the grant. Thus it claims that Kampa was
king from 1343 to 1355. We know nothing more of this, and there is
only one other document at present known to exist which was executed
in the reign either of Kampa or of Samgama This is alluded to by
Mr. Krishna Sastri, who refers us to the colophon of the MADHAVIYA
DHATUVRITTI, according to which its author, Sayanacharya, uterine
brother of the great Madhavacharya, was minister to king Samgama,
son of Kampa. The only possible inference is that the succession to
Harihara was disputed, and that somehow Bukka got the upper hand and
at least as early as 1354 declared himself king, afterwards claiming
to have immediately succeeded Harihara. It will be seen farther on
that in almost every case the kingdom was racked with dissension on
the demise of the sovereign, and that year after year the members of
the reigning family were subjected to violence and murder in order
that one or other of them might establish himself as head of the State.

On the assumption, therefore, that the reign of Bukka I. lasted from
1343 to 1379, we turn to Firishtah to learn what were this king's
relations with the followers of Islam, now supreme on the north of
the Krishna.

Just after his accession, as it would appear, occurred the successful