Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c5.10

c5.10

The weak rule of the two sovereigns facilitated the rise into prominence of Sāḷuva Narasiṃha, who finally usurped the throne in A.D. 1485 and had himself crowned king. He was an efficient ruler, and set himself to the reorganisation of the administration of the empire, and succeeded in his arduous task. He was followed by Immaḍi Narasiṃha who had as his ministers successively Narasā Nāyaka and Vira Narasiṃha. The latter usurped the throne in A.D. 1507, and after a short reign of three years bequeathed the throne to his step-brother Kṛṣṇadēva Rāya, perhaps the greatest and the most distinguished of the Vijayanagar kings.