A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c15.4

c15.4

A.D. 1449 is the last date in any known inscription containing mention of a Deva Râya, and Dr. Hultzsch¹ allots this to Deva Râya II. It may be, as already suggested, that there was a Deva Râya III. on the throne between A.D. 1444 and 1449, but this remains to be proved. Two sons of Deva Râya II., according to the inscriptions, were named Mallikârjuna and Virûpâksha I. respectively. There are inscriptions of the former dated in A.D. 1452-53 and 1464-65,² and one of the latter in 1470.³ Mallikârjuna appears to have had two sons, Râjasekhara, of whom we have inscriptions in the years A.D. 1479-80 and 1486-87, and Virupâksha II., mentioned in an inscription dated A.D. 1483-84, three years earlier than the last of Râjasekhara.