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'''Tuluva''' is the name of the third ruling [[dynasty]] of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]].<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |pages=103–112}}</ref><ref>For a map of their territory see: {{cite book |last1=Schwartzberg |first1=Joseph E. |title=A Historical atlas of South Asia |date=1978 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |page=147, map XIV.4 (e)|isbn=0226742210 |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=186}}</ref> [[Tuluva Narasa Nayaka]], a powerful warlord from the westerly <ref name="ref1">{{cite book |last1=Pollock |first1=Sheldon |title=Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800 |date=2011 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822349044 |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=740AqMUW8WQC |access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref> His son [[Viranarasimha_Raya|Narasimha Nayaka]] arranged for the assassination of the weak [[Narasimha Raya II]] bringing an end to the rule of the [[Saluva dynasty]].<ref name="ref1" /> Narasimha Nayaka later assumed the Vijayangara throne as [[Viranarasimha Raya]] bringing the Tuluva dynasty to prominence.<ref name="ref1" /> The dynasty was at its zenith during the rule of [[Krishnadevaraya]], the second son of Tuluva Narasa Nayaka.<br />
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==History==<br />
The original home of the kingdom was the westerly Tulu speaking region. A Sanskrit epigraph on the eastern wall of Tirumala temple describes the genealogy of [[Krishnadevaraya]].<ref name="ref2">{{cite book |last1=Pollock |first1=Sheldon |title=Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800 |date=2011 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822349044 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=740AqMUW8WQC |access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref> The first ancestor of the Tuluva lineage to be mentioned is Timmabhupati and his wife Devaki.<ref name="ref2" /> Timmabhupati is followed by his son Ishvara and consort Bukkamma and then a certain Narasa Bhupala who is none other than Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, the father of Emperor Krishnadevaraya.<ref name="ref2" /> The powerful warlord Tuluva Narasa Nayaka is attributed with the conquest of the [[Gajapati Kingdom|Gajapatis]] as well as certain Muslim rulers.<ref name="ref2" /> <br />
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Krishnadevaraya a [[Tulu language|Tulu]] speaker himself was noted to be linguistically neutral as he ruled a multilingual empire.<ref name="ref3">{{cite book |last1=Peter Fibiger Bang |first1=Dariusz Kolodziejczyk |title=Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107022676 |pages=222–223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiKtT85kYloC |access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref> He is known to have patronised poets and issued inscriptions in languages as varied as [[Sanskrit]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Kannada]] and [[Telugu language|Telugu]].<ref name="ref3" /> However, he elevated [[Telugu language|Telugu]] as a royal language possibly because of the dominance of Telugu speaking chiefs and composed the epic poem [[Amuktamalyada]] in it.<ref name="ref3" /> Tuluva rulers were staunch [[Vaishnava]]s and patronised [[Vaishnavism]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AoaAAAAMAAJ|title=History of Sri Vaishnavism in the Tamil Country: Post-Ramanuja|author=N. Jagadeesan|publisher=Koodal Publishers|year=1977|page=302|quote=The Tuluva kings of Vijayanagara especially Krishnadeva Raya and his successors were staunch Vaishnavaites.}}</ref> [[Vyasatirtha]], a [[Dvaita]] saint was the ''Kulaguru'' of [[Krishnadevaraya]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Vijaynagar Visions: Religious Experience and Cultural Creativity in a South Indian Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BP5jAAAAMAAJ|page=219|author=William J. Jackson|date = 26 July 2007|publisher=Oxford University Press India|isbn = 978-0-19-568320-2|access-date=26 July 2007|quote=When Krishnadevaraya became the ruler Vyasa Tirtha was his guru}}</ref><br />
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The fall of the Tuluva dynasty led to the beginning of the disintegration of the Vijayanagar empire.{{fact|date=June 2018}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Vijayanagara Empire]]<br />
[[Category:Hindu dynasties]]<br />
[[Category:Dynasties of India]]<br />
[[Category:Tuluva]]<br />
[[Category:Tulu Nadu]]<br />
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