The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c14.69

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After this turbulent and successful career Sadasiva Nayaka, being too old to govern, bestowed upon his brother Bhadrappa Nayaka the title of Immadi Sadasiva Nayaka and anointed him governor in his stead. Then Sadasiva “retired to the forests in the evening of his life,” says the *Sivatattvaratnakara*¹. Sewell puts the end of Sadasiva’s reign in the year 1576²; but this date is obviously wrong, since his second successor was deposed by Rama Raya. We may say however that this event took place during the last years of Rama Raya, some time after 1560; because the reign of Bhadrappa Nayaka did not last long: the aforesaid poem says only that he “ruled for some time”³. He is said to have transferred the capital from Keladi to Ikeri⁴. Before his death he nominated the elder son of Sadasiva Nayaka, Dodda Sankanna Nayaka, as his successor, and the younger Chikka Sankanna Nayaka, as the heir-apparent⁵. There had been to Sadasiva by different mothers⁶.