1. Placing the royal insignia at the feet of his guru Vidyaranya , in all gratitude and reverence , he hailed him as the ' Karnataka simhasana pratishthapanacharya ' ( the establisher of the throne of Karnataka ) , a title The urgent need for stone constructions in and around the new capital and the requirements of the know - how of the technique of working on the hard , adamantine stones , in which material the rocky terrain of Hampi and the neighbourhood abounded , was perhaps met from the further south where the craftsmen were for long centuries steeped in the hardstone tradition and possibly also from the Kakatiya region in the north , where sculpture in hardstone had come into vogue for some time since .

यह ऐतिहासिक पृष्ठिभूमि उस उत्साह और प्रेरणा के उचित मूल्यांकन में सहायता करेगी ऋससे विजयनगर के संस्थापकों और उनके उ