The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.184

v3.c29.184

This second usurpation caused widespread rebellion and Narasimha was engaged during the four or five years of his reign in attempting to recover the revolted provinces. He was successful on the whole, but the enterprising Gangarāja Ummattūr remained in rebellion, in the territory round Kānchī. Vīra Narasimha left some infant sons and three grown up brothers, and charged his faithful minister Sāluva Timma, as Nuniz records, to put out the eyes of the ablest of his grown-up brothers and place on the throne one of his sons. The minister proved false to the dying sovereign and remained true to the interests of the kingdom; and placed the youngest brother, marked for mutilation, upon the throne in 1509. Thus ascended the throne the great king Krishnadevarāya of Vijayanagar.