18 if he were alive, he would have contributed to the shedding of a greater quantity of blood in the disputes of succession, which followed soon after the death of Bukka. (See Ep. Ind. Vol. XII, p. 162 about these disputes). Bukka died on a Sunday, the first tithi in the dark fortnight of the month Phalguna, in the year Nala corresponding to S'1298, that is, about two years after Kampana.§ The strenuous life of Kampana has thus contributed to the expansion of the dominions of the Vijaya- nagara Empire and to the governing of the subjugated provinces with wisdom and justice; he lived in the Tamil country for nearly thirteen years from S'1283 to 1296. VASSALS OF KAMPANA.-This account of the life and the achievements of Kampana will not be complete, if we do not mention a few words regarding those faithful vassals who helped him throughcut his career of stunning success in war and beneficent administration of the country. We have seen how the brahmana general Goppanna, the Governor of Senji, was rendering his services of a general and statesman. He was an officer under Kampana even so early as S'1275. The minister of Kampana was Somappa-Udaiyar (Aramane Mahapradhani). Saluva Mangi was, according to the Salu- vabhyudaya and the Ramabhyudaya, one of the officers who accompanied Kampana in hia campaigns against Sambuvaraya and the Sultan of the South; and for the meritorious services he rendered to his liegelord, he was styled Samburaya-sthapanacharga and for his munificent gifts to the brahmanas of Sriranga, Sriranga- sthapanacharya. Then two persons are mentioned in inscrip. tions as the Mahasamantadhipatis, that is, field-marshals of Kampana; they are Ramayyadeva and Mallappanavaru, and Ep. Carn. Mysore Dt. Yd. No. 46.
