A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c16.9

c16.9

The problem of Narasimha’s relationship to the old royal line has never yet been satisfactorily solved. He belonged to a family called Sâluva, and we constantly hear, in the inscriptions and literary works of the time, of powerful lords who were relations or descendants of his. Thus our chronicle has much to say about the Sâluva Timma, whom Nuniz calls “Salvatinea,” who was minister to King Krishna Deva Râya. An inscription of the Saka year 1395, which corresponds to A.D. 1472-73, speaks of Narasimha as a great lord, but a great lord *only*,¹ and so does another of A.D. 1482-83.²