History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c29.29

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The last king of the Voḍeyar or Yādava dynasty had been deposed and murdered in 1487 and the usurpation of Sāḷuva Narasiṁha was complete. Yet Purushottama of Orissa was steadily progressing in the re-conquest of his father's dominions in Southern India. There are reasons to suppose that towards the end of his reign Purushottama became sufficiently strong to attack the kingdom of Vijayanagara as far as the capital itself. The southernmost inscription of Purushottama was discovered on the road from Koṇḍapalle to Kavuluru in the Bezwada taluga of the Kṛṣṇa district. The date of this inscription has not been read completely and therefore it is difficult to say at what time the Bahmanīs were expelled from the Godāvarī-Kṛṣṇa doāb and the armies of Vijayanagara pushed back further south.³ The Potavaram grant of Purushottama is dated Śaka 1412, *i. e.*, Saturday 1489.