Bibliographical essay

Summary

SOURCES

Full translations and summaries of inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada continue to be published by the Archaeological Survey of India in South Indian Inscriptions and Epigrapbia Indica, as well as in inscriptional series of Tamilnadu State, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka; Lewis Rice's multi-volumed Epigrapbia. Carnatka of the Mysore Archaeological Series (16 volumes, 1889-195 5) has now been substantially revised and extended and may be republished in the near future. Glossaries such as D. C. Sircar's Indian Epigraphical Glossary, Delhi, 1966, indexes such as Annual Reporton South Indian Epigraphy, which date from 1887 and summarise newly copied inscriptions, and other reference aids for using inscriptions provide access to this primary source, permitting the reader to go beyond the readings which follow.

Literary sources from the Vijayanagara period, ranging from complete translations to abbreviated summaries, have long been available, beginning with S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar's The Sources of Vijayanagara History, Madras, 1919, and continuing with the much larger Further Sources of Vijayanagara History, 3 vols; edited by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri and N. Venkataramanayya, Madras, 1946. To these were added the valuable translations of the oral and manuscript accounts collected by Colin Mackenzie during the early nineteenth century under the editorial direction of T. V. Mahalingam, Mackenzie Manuscripts; Summaries of the Historical Manuscripts in the Mackenzie Collection, 2 vols., Madras, 1972.