A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.31
A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.31
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³ Here we probably find an allusion to the reign of Achyuta. Râma was the elder of three brothers afterwards to become very famous. He and his brother Tirumala both married daughters of Krishna Deva Râya. Achyuta being, in Nuniz's belief, brother of the latter monarch, that chronicler calls these two brothers “brothers-in-law” of King Achyuta. (Below, p. 367.) Nuniz says that King Achyuta “destroyed the principal people in the kingdom and killed their sons” (p. 369).