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	The Mysore ruler [[Kanthirava Narasaraja I]] still recognised Sriranga as a namesake emperor. Sriranga died in 1678/1681 as an emperor without an empire, putting an end to over three centuries of Vijayanagara rule in India. Sriranga's only daughter was married to Srivallabha,a descendant of Narasimhacharya.		The Mysore ruler [[Kanthirava Narasaraja I]] still recognised Sriranga as a namesake emperor. Sriranga died in 1678/1681 as an emperor without an empire, putting an end to over three centuries of Vijayanagara rule in India. Sriranga's only daughter was married to Srivallabha, a descendant of Narasimhacharya.

	==References==		==References==

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'''Sriranga III''' (1642–1678/1681 CE) was the last ruler of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]], who came to power in 1642 following the death of his uncle [[Venkata III]]. He was also a great grandson of [[Aliya Rama Raya]].

==Early rebellions==
Before his accession to the throne, Sriranga III was in rebellion against his uncle Venkata III{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}. He sought help from the [[Bijapur Sultanate|Bijapur Sultan]] and attacked Venkata III in [[Chandragiri]] – [[Vellore]] in 1638{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}. Another invasion of these two in 1642 was defeated by Venkata III’s army, who were also facing [[Golkonda]] armies near [[Madras]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Under these troublesome circumstances Venkata III died, and Sriranga III who was with the Bijapur army deserted them and returned to Vellore and made himself the King of Vijayanagara.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Sriranga III brought the English East India Company into South India.<ref>{{cite book |title=C. Rajagopalachari, Gandhi's southern commander |first=Antony R. H. |last=Copley |publisher=Indo-British Historical Society |year=1986 |page=4 |quote=It was a Pretender of Vijayanagara, Sri Ranga Raya III (also known as the Raja of Chandragiri and Nayaka of Vellore) who had brought the English Company into South India and had given it title to its first petty principality. It was the Baniyas (Balijas, Chettiars, Komartis, &c) and Brahmans of Tirupati who had provided the Company with the coins from the mints of Sri Venkateswara at Tirupati.}}</ref>

==Reign==
Many of his nobles like the Nayaka of [[Gingee]] and [[Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka]], the chieftain of Madras, had a dislike for him for his mischief in rebelling against the former King.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Squabbles among the Sultans of [[Bijapur Sultan|Bijapur]] and Golkonda helped Sriranga III for a while.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} In 1644 the Sultan of Golkonda appeared with a vast army, but was defeated by Sriranga III.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Sriranga III, now feeling strong enough to demand money from the Southern [[Nayak (ethnic group)|Nayaks]], marched south.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} He granted site of Fort St. George (Madras) to British agents of East India Company in 1640s at Raja Mahal of [[Chandragiri]] fort, present day [[Tirupati revenue division|Tirupathi]].<ref name="asi">{{cite web |last1=asi |title=Raja & Rani Mahal, Chandragiri Fort |url=http://asi.nic.in/raja-rani-mahal-chandragiri-fort/ |website=Archeological Survey of India |publisher=Archeological Survey of India |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref>

==Battle of Virinchipuram==
In 1646 Sriranga III collected a large army with help from [[Mysore]], [[Gingee]] and [[Tanjore]] and met the Golkonda forces.

The Muslim forces were losing, but later advanced, when consolidated by additional armies from the Deccan. The war went on till 1652. In 1649 [[Tirumala Nayaka]] sent his forces supporting the Bijapur ruler, but upon converging at the Gingee Fort, the Madurai forces created a chaos and took sides with the Gingee army, when the Bijapur and Golkonda entered into their agreements. This led to the banishment of Gingee Nayak rule in 1649.

By 1652, Sriranga III was left with only [[Vellore Fort]], which was finally seized by the Golkonda forces. By now he had only the support of Mysore, while Tanjore had submitted to the Muslim forces and the Madurai Nayak ended up paying huge sums to Muslim forces, but all three retaining their kingdoms.

==Last years==
Sriranga III spent his last years under the support of one of his vassal chieftains, [[Shivappa Nayaka]] of [[Ikkeri]], and was still hoping to retrieve Vellore from the Muslim forces. Thirumala Nayaka's treachery to Sriranga III made the Mysore ruler Kanthirava Narasaraja I wage a series of ravaging wars with Madurai, later capturing the territories of [[Coimbatore]] and [[Salem, Tamil Nadu|Salem]], regions which were retained by Mysore till 1800.

==Death==
The Mysore ruler [[Kanthirava Narasaraja I]] still recognised Sriranga as a namesake emperor. Sriranga died in 1678/1681 as an emperor without an empire, putting an end to over three centuries of Vijayanagara rule in India. Sriranga's only daughter was married to Srivallabha,a descendant of Narasimhacharya.

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* http://www.thiruvarangam.com/history.html
* {{citation |last1=Rao |first1=Velcheru Narayana |last2=Shulman |first2=David Dean |first3=Sanjay |last3=Subrahmanyam |title=Symbols of Substance: Court and state in Nāyaka Period Tamilnadu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znFuAAAAMAAJ |year=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195630213 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Subrahmanyam |first1=Sanjay |last2=Shulman |first2=David |title=The Men who Would be King? The Politics of Expansion in Early Seventeenth-Century Northern Tamilnadu |journal=Modern Asian Studies |volume=24 |issue=2 |year=2008 |pages=225–248 |issn=0026-749X |doi=10.1017/S0026749X00010301}}
* {{citation |first=G. S. |last=Srinivasachari |title=A History of Gingee and its Rulers |publisher=Annamalai University |location=Madras |year=1943 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.500497/page/n5}}
* 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}}.
*Pedda Varadacharya on the descendants of vijayanagara empire.

==Further reading==
* [https://cbkwgl.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/the-unlucky-sriranga/ '''The Unlucky Sriranga''' - Posted by ''cbkwgl'' in End of Kingdoms, History, Indian Encyclopedia, Vijayanagar]

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