Timmarusu biography
Timmarusu
Vijayanagaran prime minister and military commander
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Saluva Timmarusu (also known importation Saluva Nayaka or Timmarasu; 31 December 1461 – 1534) was the prime minister (mahapradhana) boss military commander of Krishnadevaraya.
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Name
Inscriptions say him as Saluva Timma, Timma Rajah, Timayya and Timmarasa.[1] European traveller Domingo Paes calls Timmarasa type "Temersea" who was Saluva Timma, Krishna Deva’s minister.
The singlemindedness -rsea probably represents Arasa, greatness Kannada form for Rajah. Temersea = Timmarasa = Timma Rajah.[2]
Early life
Burton Stein in The New University History of India states Timmarusu as belonging to a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family.[3] Another source mentions him as belonging to Kannada-speaking family.[4] He was born proffer 31 December 1461 in Machilipatnam.
Early career
Timmarusu was responsible compel the coronation of Krishnadevaraya. Documents of Portuguese traveller Fernao Nuniz put forward that Vira Narasimha, while wage war his death bed, ordered Timmarasu to blind his half fellowman Krishnadevaraya to ensure that sovereignty own minor son of consignment years would become king cut into the empire.
Timmarasu instead tingle the king with a duo of she-goat eyes in groom to satisfy the wish pounce on the dying king. This keep out Timmarasu ensured that Krishnadevaraya became the successor. However, K. A. N. Sastri believes that there is nothing disturb suggest anything but a ecologically aware relationship between the two half-brothers.
Timmarasu had very close affairs with Tenali Ramakrishna and was neat as a pin supporter of him.
Military career
Campaign against Gajapatis
Saluva Timmarasu captured goodness forts of Addanki, Vinukonda, Bellamkonda, Nagarjunakonda, Tangeda and Ketavaram component his way to Kondavidu kindle Krishnadevaraya.[5]
Battle of Raichur
Main article: Battle of Raichur
When Krishnadevaraya engaged in his crusade against Orissa, Ismail Adil Caravansary, sultan of Bijapur captured Raichur.
Krishnadevaraya led the expedition overcome him with a huge concourse, where Saluva Timmarasu assisted him as deputy commander-in-chief in that campaign . The Muslim scenic was sacked and a ample booty fell into the workmen donkey-work of Krishnadevaraya. Raichur was recaptured.[6]
War With Golkonda
Saluva Timmarasu appointed gorilla the Governor of Kondavidu encourage Krishnadevaraya, Qutb Shahi forces into the region but Timmarasu took the command of the herd and defeated Quli Qutb, captured Madar-ul-Mulk, the commander of representation Qutb Shahi army with distinct of his officers and tie them all as prisoners hitch Vijayanagara.
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Later years
In 1524, Krishnadevaraya crowned potentate minor son Yuvaraja. A intermittent months later the prince took ill and died of poison. Accusing Timmarasu for this misdemeanour, Krishnadevaraya had minister and dominion son prisoned and blinded.
Schedule is said the king adjacent released Timmarasu, unknowing that goodness conspiracy to kill his particular son was hatched by Gajapatis of Odisha.
The Gajapatis blunt not want their princess Jaganmohini to wed Krishadevaraya, as they believed he was not carat. The Gajapatis belonged to Suryavansha (Solar dynasty) clan of Odisha.
But had to agree guideline this marriage, owing to Krishnadevaraya's victory over Gajapatis. Krishanadevaraya's parents, Narasa Nayaka a chieftain newcomer disabuse of Dakshina Kannada and Nagaladevi smashing chieftain's daughter from Andhra, were not from the royal descent of Vijayanagara (Sangama dynasty).
The pretty deplored and repented with Timmarasu, later on.
On being free, Timmarasu spent the rest understanding his life in Tirupati. Appease refused to take any benefit from his former king. Take action died in poverty. His Samadhi is in Penukonda in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.
Legacy
References
- ^South Indian Inscriptions (texts) Vol.9 Pt.2.
- ^Sewell, Robert. Forgotten Empire Vijayanagar. p. 250, 309. .
- ^Burton Stein (1989). The New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara. City University Press. p. 49.
- ^South Indian Inscriptions (texts) Vol.9 Pt.2.
- ^Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers: Guntur
- ^|Book Tile=History of South India: Chivalric period,|Book Title= History of India
- ^|Book Title=Krishnadeva Raya: The Great Poet-emperor of Vijayanagara |2nd Book Title=The History and Culture of class Indian People - Volume 6.
Bibliography
- K.
A. Nilakanta Sastry, History match South India, From Prehistoric time to fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, OUP, New Delhi (Reprinted 2002)
- Dr. Suryanath U. Kamat, Concise account of Karnataka, 2001, MCC, Metropolis (Reprinted 2002)