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1. divisions of the army; and all the kings and chiefs living in the regions bounded by the Vindhya mountains on the north, by the Malaya mountains on the south, by the Udayachala on the east and by the Astachala on the west owed him allegiance. In his capital, there were gopuras as tall as the peaks of Meru, beautiful pleasure gardens with hiliccks and artificial baths. The river Tungabhadra served as a meat to the city of Vijaya- nagara, which was also surrounded by lofty fortified walls all round. In Pampa (Hampe), a suburb of this city, there was the temple of Virupaksha. The rule of Bukkaraya was so peaceful and so productive of good to the people that the citizens began to entertain doubts if Manu hiu-elf had not incarnated in the person of Bukkaraya, Though his mind paid regard equally to dharma, artha and kama, he had still a partiality for the first purushartha. He had several wives, but he loved Devayi more than the others. Enjoying thus all the various pleasures of life, king Bukkaraya was ruling the earth. Devayi, the queen of the king of Kuntala, gave birth first to a prince named Kampana; and after him were born Kampana (?) and Sangama. These three sons of Bukka by Davayi resem- bled in their lustre the three eyes of Siva. While pregnant with the elder Kampana, the queen-mother Devayi had desired a sacred plunge in the holy waters of the Tamraparni. (The author by mentioning this fact implies that the desire of the mother to bathe in the lamraparni so affected the unborn child that when the child grew up to aninhood, his inclination Was to extend his conquests us far south as the Tamraparni and reach its bank.) When the pance was born, he was uauued Kam- pana because he made his ecles quake with fear at the very mention of his name. T'he yousalut Kampana(wherever this name occurs in subsequent porticus, it is used to denote only the elder of the two sons of Bukka, wo are said to have borne the same name) was well-versed in all the kalas (branches of learning) and was equally well-trained in the use of arms. While Kampana was yet young, his father Bakkasummoned him to his presence, discoursed to him on the evils that befall young princes by