Tuluva dynasty

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Tuluva is the name of the third dynasty of the Vijayanagara Empire. [1] [2] The dynasty traces its patrilineal ancestry to Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, a powerful warlord from the westerly Tulu speaking region. [3] His son Narasimha Nayaka arranged for the assassination of the weak Narasimha Raya II bringing an end to the rule of the Saluva dynasty. [3] Narasimha Nayaka later assumed the Vijayangara throne as Viranarasimha Raya bringing the Tuluva dynasty to prominence. [3] The dynasty was at its zenith during the rule of Krishnadevaraya, the second son of Tuluva Narasa Nayaka.

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History

A epigraph on the eastern wall of Tirumala temple describes the genealogy of Krishnadevaraya. [3] The first ancestor of the Tuluva lineage to be mentioned is Timmabhupati and his wife Devaki. [3] Timmabhupati is followed by his son Ishvara and consort Bukkamma and then a certain Narasa Bhupala who is none other than Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, the father of Emperor Krishnadevaraya. [3] The powerful warlord Tuluva Narasa Nayaka is attributed with the conquest of the Gajapatis as well as certain Muslim rulers. [3]

Krishnadevaraya is known to have patronised poets and issued inscriptions in languages as varied as Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. [4] However, he elevated Telugu as a royal language possibly because of the dominance of Telugu speaking chiefs and composed the epic poem Amuktamalyada in it. [4] Tuluva rulers were staunch Vaishnavas and patronised Vaishnavism. [5] Vyasatirtha, a Kannadiga Dvaita saint was the Kulaguru of Krishnadevaraya. [6]

The fall of the Tuluva dynasty led to the beginning of the disintegration of the Vijayanagar empire.[ citation needed ]

List of rulers

NameBirthReignDeath
Tuluva Narasa Nayaka 1491–15031503
Viranarasimha Raya 1505–17 July 150917 July 1509
Krishnadevaraya 17 January 147126 July 1509 – 17 October 152917 October 1529 [7]
Achyuta Deva Raya 1529–15421542
Venkata I 1542–1542 (killed in only 6 months)1542
Sadasiva Raya 1542–15701570

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References

  1. ↑ Sen, Sailendra (2013). A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. pp. 103–112. ISBN   978-9-38060-734-4.
  2. ↑ For a map of their territory see: Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 147, map XIV.4 (e). ISBN   0226742210.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pollock, Sheldon (2011). Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800. Duke University Press. p. 81. ISBN   9780822349044 . Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  4. 1 2 Peter Fibiger Bang, Dariusz Kolodziejczyk (2012). Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–223. ISBN   9781107022676 . Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  5. ↑ N. Jagadeesan (1977). History of Sri Vaishnavism in the Tamil Country: Post-Ramanuja. Koodal Publishers. p. 302. The Tuluva kings of Vijayanagara especially Krishnadeva Raya and his successors were staunch Vaishnavaites.
  6. ↑ William J. Jackson (26 July 2007). Vijaynagar Visions: Religious Experience and Cultural Creativity in a South Indian Empire. Oxford University Press India. p. 219. ISBN   978-0-19-568320-2 . Retrieved 26 July 2007. When Krishnadevaraya became the ruler Vyasa Tirtha was his guru
  7. ↑ "THE HONNENAHALLI UNPUBLISHED INSCRIPTION FURNISHING THE DATE OF THE DEMISE OF SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA". The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society. 111 (1): 72–75. 2021.{{cite journal}}: |first= missing |last= (help)


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