Vijayanagara's Harihara II extends southern reach

1368

Vijayanagara's king pushed south against remaining Sultanate enclaves in the Tamil country and east toward the Coromandel coast, absorbing former Pandya and Chola territories into the expanding Hindu empire. Under his reign the Sanskrit court of Vidyaranya produced philosophical commentaries that rearticulated Hindu identity in opposition to Islamic political threats, forging a cultural counterweight to the Bahmani north.