South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.s1.39

c8.s1.39

The real founder of the Hoysala power was Biṭṭi Dēva or Viṣṇuvardhana. His grandson Vīra Baḷḷāḷa however extended the territory permanently to the frontier of the Krishna and incorporated within it the eastern and north-eastern parts of Mysore. It was in the middle of his reign, in the year A.D. 1193, when the imperial power had become extinct, that he declared himself independent. He continued to reign till A.D. 1220, just four years after the commencement of the reign of Rājarāja III. In that year he was succeeded by his son Narasimha or Vīra Narasimha, the second of the name in this dynasty whose reign extended down to A.D. 1235. In the first years of Narasimha’s reign his intervention in the affairs of the Chola empire was called for.