Who of the following founded a new city on the south bank of a tributary to river Krishna and undertook to rul

Question

Who of the following founded a new city on the south bank of a tributary to river Krishna and undertook to rule his new kingdom as the agent of a deity to whom all the land south of the river Krishna was supposed to belong?

Accepted Answer

Harihara I, a founder of the Vijayanagara Empire, established the city of Hampi. He ruled with divine sanction, associating his authority with the deity Virupaksha, to whom the land south of the Tungabhadra river (a tributary of Krishna) was considered to belong. This concept of ruling as a divine agent was central to the legitimacy of the Vijayanagara rulers.