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Synopsis Inscriptions of The Vijayanagara Rulers: Inscriptions of the Rulers of The Sangama Dynasty (1336-1485) is the first of three volumes of Kannada Inscriptionis in five parts, prepared under the Inscriptions Programme planned by the ICHR. Under this Programme, a Committee for the compilation of the Vijayanagara Inscriptions was formed with Dr. Shrinivas compiling the Kannada Inscriptions was assigned jointly to Dr. Ritti and Dr. B.R. Gopal. They completed the task with great devotion and submitted their scholarly work to the ICHR. The present volume contains as many as 832 inscriptions covering a period from 1339 A.D. to 1494 A.D. Most of the inscriptions are in Kannada language and script, while some of them, particularly, copper plates, are in Sanskrit language and Nagari script. There are a few which are bilingual and bi-scriptal as well. Region-wise, they come from the whole of the Kannada area covered by the erstwhile Vijayanagara empire viz., between the Krishna and the Kaveri. It is well known that Indian historiography, particularly for the early part of it, rests almost entirely on epigraphy, augmented, only to a small extent, by literature. The history of Vijayanagara is no exception. Many of the inscriptions here, have been utilized by earlier scholars working on different aspects of Vijayanagara history. Nevertheless, their value is not diminished. It is the experience of every epigraphist that with every fresh reading of an inscriptioin, new ideas and new interpretations are suggested. These inscriptioins provide a variety of rich material and open up new avenues of study. It is hoped that scholars and researchers engaged in Indological studies exploit this material to the fullest extent.