A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c16.30

c16.30

Writing of the events of the year 1530,⁴ we find Firishtah stating that the affairs of Vijayanagar were then in confusion owing to the death of Heemraaje, who was newly succeeded by his son Ramraaje. And this passage helps us definitely to the conclusion that his Heemraaje, or Timma Râja, was the Muhammadan name for the ruler of the state during the reigns of Narasimha, Narasa or Vira Narasimha, and Krishna Deva Râya, the latter of whom died in 1530. Firishtah seems to have confused Narasa's and Krishna Deva Râya's powerful minister, Sâluva Timma, with Narasimha and Narasa, and made all three one person. "Ramraaje" is mentioned as king by Firishtah from the accession of Achyuta in 1530 down to the year 1565.