Bhavana Sangama

Bhavana Sangama, also called simply Sangama, was a chieftain of a pastoralist shepherd community in the Karnataka country, remembered above all as the father of the founders of the Vijayanagara Empire.

He married Maravve Nayakiti, daughter of Kampili Deva Raya, king of Kampili, and elder sister of Prince Kumara Rama. His five sons were Harihara, Bukka, Kampa, Marappa and Muddappa; the eldest two, Harihara and Bukka, went on to found Vijayanagara in 1336.