16 Below is appended a table for easily understanding the relationships subsisting between the members of the first Vijayanagara dynasty, who are referred to in the course of this article: Harihara I. Sangama II. Kampa I. Sangama I, Bukka I. Muddapa. Marappa. Hiriya Kampana Chikka Kampana. Sangama III. The introduction in the Madhuaravijaya, of another Kampana in the already confused state of the genealogy of the first Vijayanagara dynasty produces still greater confusion and difficulty in the way of a proper understanding of the value of the stone and the copper-plate documents that are unearthed from time to time. Confusion or no confusion, it is the duty of the historian to face the situation boldly and offer a scientific, ex- planation of the facts brought to his notice. We know as a fact that Kampa, the brother of Harihara I, held the government of the province of Udayagirirajya, under the title and design- ation of the "Lord of the Eastern and the Western Oceans," and he seems to have died sometime before S' 1268-9, the date of the death of Harihara i, and of the accession of Bukka I. If he had not died before that year, it is difficult to understand how Bukka, the third son of Sangama, could have ascended the throne even when his second son Kampa was alive. The grant said to have been made by Sangama II, the son of Kampa I, on the annual ceremony of his father (the Bitragunta Plates, Ep. Ind. Vol. III), in the year S' 1978, should have been made on the tenth anniversary or so of his father, and not the first, In this connection, attention has to be drawn to the wording employed in the document, namely, that the occasion of the granting of the village recorded in the Bitra- gunta plates was the pratyabda-kala, meaning the day on which the annual ceremony fell, and therefore it need not nesessaarily imply the first of such occasions only. If now it
