Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c9.s9.3

c9.s9.3

In 1384 a Sāluva-Rāma-Dēva, who seems to have been governor of Taḷakāḍ, was killed in battle against the Turukas at Kottakoṇḍa (Ck 15). Sāluva-Tippa-Rāja was married to Harimā, sister of the Vijayanagar king Dēva-Rāya II (Cd 29). And in 1431 we have Sāluva-Tippa-Rāja and his son Gōpa-Rāja, to whom Tēkal was given by order of that king (Mr 3). These Sāluvas are distinguished by the epithets mēdinī-mīsara-gaṇḍa (champion over the mustaches of the world), kaṭhāri-sāluva (dagger falcon). From this family (see My 33) sprang the short-lived dynasty, composed of Sāluva-Nṛisimha or Narasinga and his son Immaḍi-Nṛisimha or Narasinga, which held the Vijayanagar throne from 1478 to 1496.¹ The former was commander of the Vijayanagar forces under the kings Mallikārjuna and Virūpāksha. But after successfully defending the empire against the Bahmani Sultān's invasion, he took advantage of his position to usurp the crown. He is said to have been the most powerful chief in Karṇāṭa and Telingāna, and a Muhammadan historian (see vol. x, Introd. 36) represents Kānchī as being in the centre of his dominions.