Sriranga Deva Raya (a.k.a. Sriranga I) (r. 1572 – 1586 CE) was the second Emperor of Vijayanagara from the Aravidu Dynasty. He reigned the empire from the fortress of Penukonda. Sriranga succeeded his father, Emperor Tirumala Deva Raya. After the fall of Vijayanagara to Turko-Persian Sultanates of Deccan, he carried out the restoration of the empire from Penukonda. His reign was marred with repeated invasions and subsequent losses of territory to his Turko-Persian Muslim neighbours.^[1]

In 1576, the Turko-Persian Sultan of Bijapur Ali Adil Shah I laid siege to the imperial capital fortress in Penukonda for three months, but at the end the emperor defeated the invading sultan which helped his able general Savaram Chennappa defeat the bijapur army.^[1]

In 1579, the Turko-Persian Sultan of Golconda raided and plundered the rich temple of Narasimha at Ahobilam. By 1580, the Kondaveedu province was lost to the same. The emperor successfully recaptured Ahobilam.

He died in 1586 CE, without an heir and was succeeded by his youngest brother Venkatapathi Raya, the governor of Chandragiri.

References

Bibliography

• Rao, P. Raghunatha (1994), History And Culture Of Andhra Pradesh: From The Earliest Times To The Present Day, Sterling Publishers, ISBN 81-207-1719-8

Further reading

• Rao, Velcheru Narayana; Shulman, David Dean; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (1992), Symbols of Substance: Court and state in Nāyaka Period Tamilnadu, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-563021-3
• Subrahmanyam, Sanjay; Shulman, David (2008). "The Men who Would be King? The Politics of Expansion in Early Seventeenth-Century Northern Tamilnadu". Modern Asian Studies. 24 (2): 225–248. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00010301. ISSN 0026-749X. S2CID 146726950.
• Sathianathaier, R. History of the Nayaks of Madura [microform] by R. Sathyanatha Aiyar ; edited for the University, with introduction and notes by S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar ([Madras] : Oxford University Press, 1924) ; see also ([London] : H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1924) ; xvi, 403 p. ; 21 cm. ; SAMP early 20th-century Indian books project item 10819.
• K.A. Nilakanta Sastry, History of South India, From Prehistoric times to fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, OUP, (Reprinted 2002) ISBN 0-19-560686-8.