A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c16.5

c16.5

“We now come to the second or Narasimha dynasty, whose scions became more powerful than any monarchs who had ever reigned over the south of India. Dr. Burnell fixes A.D. 1490 as the initial date of Narasimha’s reign, and at present no inscription that I can be sure of appears to overthrow that statement. I observe, however, that Bishop Caldwell, in his ‘History of Tinnevelly’ (p. 48), fixes the date of the beginning of Narasimha’s . . . reign as A.D. 1487. . . . We have yet to learn the history of his acquiring the sovereignty of Vijayanagar and ousting the older dynasty.”