Mallikarjuna Raya
Mallikarjuna Raya | |
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Emperor | |
Emperor of Vijayanagara | |
Reign | 1446 – 14 July 1465 CE[1] |
Predecessor | Deva Raya II |
Successor | Virupaksha Raya II |
Born | 1420 |
Issue | Virupaksha Raya II |
Dynasty | Sangama |
Father | Deva Raya II |
Religion | Hinduism |
Vijayanagara Empire |
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Ruling dynasties |
Mallikarjuna Raya (or Deva Raya III) (born 1420, r. 1446–14 July 1465 CE) was an Emperor of Vijayanagara from the Sangama Dynasty.
Mallikarjuna Raya succeeded his father Emperor Deva Raya II, who had brought prosperity throughout the Vijayanagara empire as well as a golden age for the Sangama Dynasty. However, unlike his father, Mallikarjuna was a weak and corrupt ruler[citation needed].
At the beginning of his reign, he successfully defended the empire against invasions by the Turko-Persian Bahmani Sultanate and the Gajapati Empire, which then stretched from the Ganges to the Kaveri, but thereafter his reign was marked by a string of defeats. The Gajapatis conquered Rajamahendri in 1454 and Udayagiri and Chandragiri in 1463. The Bahmani Sultanate took over much of the Vijayanagara Empire by 1450 and grew closer to the capital of Vijayanagara.
These events eventually led to the decline of the Sangama Dynasty; Mallikarjuna Raya's nephew Virupaksha Raya II took the opportunity to seize the throne, though he failed to prove a better ruler. It is unknown what happened to Mallikarjuna after that.
References
- ^ Lakshmi, Kumari Jhansi (1958). THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE SANGAMA DYNASTY.
- Dr. Suryanath U. Kamat, Concise history of Karnataka, MCC, Bangalore, 2001 (Reprinted 2002)
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