The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c7.25

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Achyuta's death. Cf. Wilson, *The Mackenzie Collection*, p. 88; Rice, *Mysore*, I, p. 353; Ravenshaw, *Translation of Various Inscriptions of Vijayanagara*, *Asiatic Researches*, XX, p. 12-3; Subramiah Pantulu, *Remarks on Telugu Literature*, *Ind. Ant.*, XXVII, p. 300. Did this confusion arise from the short reign of Venkata I, so long forgotten, or perhaps from the fact of the appointment made by Krishna Deva Raya of his six-years-old son Tirumalayadeva Maharayar as his Crown Prince (139 of 1896; *Ep. Carn.*, IX, Ma, 6 and 82) who dying soon after, as Nuniz narrates, (Sewell, p. 359), again left the throne vacant? After carefully reading Nuniz, I am more inclined to the latter view.