A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.69

c19.69

We saw that, according to Nuniz, Krishna Deva, immediately on his accession to the throne, imprisoned his three brothers and a nephew, then eight years old, son of the late king, "Busbalrao." This was in the year 1509 A.D., and Krishna was then over twenty years old. We hear of no king of the name of "Busbalrao," or anything like it, from other sources; nor are the names of Krishna's three brothers as given by Nuniz² at all like those of the two half-brothers mentioned in some of the inscriptions.