Digital Rare Book:
History of Vijayanagar - The never to be forgotten Empire
By Bangalore Suryanarain Row
Printed by Addison & Co., Madras - 1905

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PREFACE

As a student, I took much interest in the stories current all over Southern India about Krishna Deva Raya, and his court pundit and Jester Tennala Rama Krishna. I visited Anagondi and its ruins several times when I was practising in Bellary, and I have known the present Raja of Anagondi, Sriranga Devarayalu, for over fifteen years. As the compilation of a trustworthy history is always a difficult task, and as my time was taken up in my own business engagements and publications of works, I did not first seriously entertain any idea of writing a short sketch of this mighty empire, although that idea was ever prominent in my head for over 20 years. At the request bf the present Raja I went to Anagondi, and spent there a couple of months, in collecting and comparing all the available information, and I visited in company with the Raja almost all the places which had any historical or religious associations about them. The result is most satisfactory, as I have seen personally, what I am asked to write about. The history may have its own defects, but the general interest of the sketch is so absorbing, that I am sure every reader will view my work with an indulgent turn of mind. My thanks are specially due to the present Raja of Anagondi, for placing all facilities in my way to complete this work, and making it as authentic, as a work can be finished, with the sources of information available at present.

B. SURYANARAIN ROW, B.A.,M.R.A.S.

Madras.
January, 1905