A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c16.17

c16.17

Firishtah mentions a certain “Sewaroy” as being râja of Vijayanagar in 1482, shortly before the death of Muhammad Shâh Bahmanî. Speaking of the new sovereign of Bîjapûr, the first of the Âdil Shâhs, in 1489, the historian tells us that the Âdil’s rival, Kâsim Barîd, asked the then minister of Vijayanagar for aid against the rising power of his enemy;¹ and that “the Roy being a child, his minister, Heemraaje,² sent an army” and seized the country as far as Mudkal and Raichûr. This occurred in A.H. 895, which embraces the period from November 1489 to November 1490. “Heemraaje,” therefore, is probably for Simha or Narasimha Râja, or perhaps for Narasa, otherwise called Vîra Narasimha.