ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book emphasizes the systemic patterns involved not to condone any injustices, but to avoid a narrow oversimplification that focuses only on politics or economy. The people remembered themselves when the Vijayanagara empire formed. As one more local example of a universal ordering process they organized themselves a state, the empire grew and flourished, and the rise of Vijayanagara as a champion of Hindu revival led to a spurt of musical activity all over the South, a burgeoning of bhakti creativity in the fine arts. For Hindus in South India, Vidyaranya, an agent of Hindu self-organization, helped bring order out of the chaos of the times. Vidyaranya re-established the familiar attractors that had patterned great Hindu kingdoms of the past. In Hindu kingdoms the laws of growth and organization derive from the interaction between brahman sage and warrior king.
