Death of Deva Raya II

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1. 1440Vijayanagara court · KarnatakaAccording to the Timurid envoy Abdurrazzaq and the Portuguese merchant Fernão Nunes, late in Deva Raya II's reign the court was shaken by a plot among close relatives: a prince or nephew lured courtiers to a banquet to kill them, and the emperor himself narrowly escaped assassination. When the plot was exposed, it triggered a large-scale bloody purge, and the political atmosphere in the empire grew increasingly tense.
2. 1446Vijayanagara · KarnatakaDeva Raya II died in the capital at roughly fifty years of age. His reign, beginning in 1423, saw military reforms, the recruitment of Muslim archers, hydraulic works, and vigorous patronage of Kannada and Sanskrit literature, and is regarded by later ages as the peak of the Sangama dynasty. The monarch's death directly triggered a succession crisis.