Samrat Krishna Dev Rai

सम्राट कृष्णदेव राय

Sendraendra Pratap Verma Magh Shukla Chautardhi Samvat 1566 vendor was the reign of Emperor Krishna Dev Rai of the Vijayanagar empire, was a wonderful phenomenon in India's history. This incident is considered to be the beginning of the Golden Age in South India, because he had set up an ideal Hindu empire by dusting the expansionist plan of the Birbar Mughal Sultans in South India, which further led to the inspiration of Hindustani Swarajya of Chhattisgarh Shivaji Maharaj.

While evaluating the emperor Krishna Deva Raya, symbol of great bravery and valor, historians have written that within them Hindu life was coordinated with the ideals of the virtues of all the Indian emperors. In their state there was a judicial system like Vikramaditya, the strategic elements of Chandragupta and Emperor Ashok and the strategic elements of the Shankaracharya's great saint Vidya Swami's aspirations and Acharya Chanakya were involved. That is why Babar wrote in Baburnama that in connection with the expansion of the infidels and the strength of the army, the Vijayanagar empire is the largest. Krishna Deva Raya in South India and Rana Sagar in North India are the two big Kapoor kings.

By the way, in 1510 AD, the coronation of Emperor Krishna Deva Raya was the beginning of a new life for the Vijayanagar empire, but its origination was only in 1336 AD. It is said that Harihar, the first ruler of the Vijayanagar empire, and his brother Bukkaraya were devotees of Lord Krishna and wanted to instill the destruction of unrighteousness and the establishment of religion by their inspiration. Harihar once went to the forest area on the banks of the Tungabhadra river for hunting, the hunter-gatherers ran a buck, but the deer ran fearlessly by fleeing the hunter dogs instead of fleeing. This incident was very strange. After the incident, one day Harihar Rai was gifted with great saint Swami Vitariya and he told the whole story to Swamiji. On this, the saint said that this land will be an unchallenged and most powerful by the enemy. The saint decided to settle that land and stay there himself. This place was developed and called Vijayanagara. In fact, the decision to make mutual bitterness of the Hindu kings of South India, expansionist campaigns of Alauddin Khilji and the decision of Mohammed Tughalak in the capital of India, Devgiri, shocked the Hindu heart of Swami Vidyalaya, that is why they themselves wanted to establish a Shaktipeeth. With the efforts of Harihar Rai, Vijayanagar became a state and the way Chandragupta's Prime Minister Acharya Chanakya was, in the same way, the great saint of the Vijayanagar empire, Sant Vidyarthi Swami and the first ruler, Harihar Rai, Gradually, the rule of Harihar Rai I was spread on the south side of India's Krishnani. The rulers changed and after Harihar I, the rule of governance came in the hands of Bukkaraya, Harihar II, Devaraya I, Devaraya II, Mallikarjuna and Virendra, but separating from the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal rulers of the established Bahmani kingdom were constantly lagging for extinction. In which the boundaries of the Vijayanagar empire were narrowed.

1485 AD In Karnataka and Telangana's Samanta Saluva Narasimha defeated the Bahamani Sultans and converted the Vijayanagara empire into the Narsingh Empire. After this it was felt that now the Vijayanagar empire would be incorporated into history, but in 1510 AD, it started again and the coronation of Krishnadev Rai was done in the short life of 20 years.

At the time of this coronation, the Portuguese conquered Goa by invading Adilshah, the Sultan of Bijapur, to secure its business in Goa, but the emperor Krishna Deva Raya, from his diplomatic moves, represented Adilshah of Mughalia Sultanate and the Middle Ages of the Portuguese Continuous efforts to work on the fire of fire. The Portuguese governor, however, used to consider King Krishnadev Roy as the king of the South. With his coronation, Emperor Krishnadev Rai also started his conquest campaign. By 1516, they won many fortresses of Orissa and got married by marrying the daughter of the king of Orissa. At the same time, Emperor Krishna Deva Rai established his hegemony over the Eastern territories. To combat the Sultan of the Golconda, all the Hindu kings of the country gathered there because Sultan Kuli had occupied the small kingdoms of the South. Historians say that this struggle lasted for two and a half decades. In 1534, the Sultan kuli was badly injured and the body became distorted by the influence of smallpox. Raichur's struggle after the coronation year was the most important struggle of the life of emperor Krishna Deva Raya. Raichur was a safe city. There was also a strong fort, it was in the heart of Vijayanagar's former ruler Narasimha, the sharp blow to win because this fort Adilshah had taken away from the former rulers of Narasimha. In fact, the sight of the emperor Krishna Dev Rai was also on the Fort of Raichur as well as the overthrow of the Mughal Empire.

Emperor Krishna Deva Rai was very fond of horses. He sent forty thousand coins to a Mughal named Seede Merkar, in Ponda of Goa, to send horses to buy horses, but that Mughal betrayed and along with the Mughals of Ponda, they took coins and horses and ran into the territory of Adilshah. On the basis of the 40-year-old treaty of both the states, the protection of the criminal of another state was a violation of the treaty, so the emperor Krishna Deva Rai wrote a letter to Adilshah and told that Sidemarkar should be handed over immediately to the Vijayanagara Empire, otherwise the result would be terrifying. . Adilshah, because of ego, wrote a letter to the emperor instead of sending the Mughal criminal to Vijay Nagar that according to the advice of Qazi, he is the representative of the Prophet's entry and law, and therefore he can not be assigned to Vijayanagar.

Against this stubbornness, Emperor Krishnadev Rai attacked Raiichur with a huge army of 7,36,000 soldiers. Diplomaticly, he also prepared the sultans of Barar, Bidar and Golconda to not speak in favor of Adilshah. These Sultans knew that if we helped Adilshah, then we would have to struggle with the wrath of the emperor Krishna Deva. As a result, all of them did not stand in support of Adilshah, while attacking all Hindu kings, they attacked the Adilshahi army of Bijapur by converging on the banks of the Krishna River. Fearing fear Adilshah escaped from the battlefield and conquered the emperor Krishna Deviya.

This victory of Emperor Krishna Deva Raya was said to be the significant victory of South India, with very far reaching results, which are as underwriters.

1. Shattered the power and respect of Adilshah, he broke the ego of Bijapur, in which he dreamed of becoming the Sultan of South India in his eyes. 2. The hearts of the other Mughal rulers of South India were shocked and they started looking for ways to survive. 3. The Portuguese became so scared that they felt that their business was not possible without the help of Hindus. 4. The strong population of self-respect and self respect in the Indians has emerged. Emperor Krishnadev Rai organized a grand celebration on this success in Vijaynagar, in which the Mughal rulers sent their messengers, who were strongly condemned by Emperor Krishna Deva Rai. Even Adilshah's messenger said that if Adilshah himself came here to kiss my steps and dedicates his land and fortress, then we can forgive him.

In addition to valor, Vijayanagar's empire was incomparable in the world on the basis of governance. Beautiful town composition and the comfort of living a peaceful life for everyone was different here. There was no discrimination on the basis of race and worship system. Here the king was considered to be the guardian of religion, cow and people. Emperor Krishna Deva Rai believed that enemies should be crushed on the basis of power and in the same manner they showed in practice. A clear glimpse of the virtues of the Vijayanagar empire is met by several illustrations of famous Daruli Ram of his court, which are still taught in India for the development of policies and virtues within the children. Under the rule of Emperor Krishnadevaraya Kautilya's economics was considered to be the basis of economic development, and as a result, the agriculture there became the main source of income for the people. Their justice was fame in all over India. The army strength of about 10 lakhs, which included 32,000 cavalry and a small cannon meal and elephants, also showed the military strongness.

The Vijayanagar empire was world-renowned for its ideal Hindu lifestyle. In spite of being Maharaja Krishnadev Rai Vaishnava, even though Indian cultures such as Jain, Buddhist, Shaiva, Lingayat used to give full religious freedom to non-Christian non-Christian communities such as Jews and Muslims. The result of such a universal approach was that the Vijayanagar empire established in 1336 became a symbol of mutual harmony and integration of Hindu and Muslim or Christianity, while ten years later, ie, in 1347 AD, the bitterness, malice towards the Bahamani state Hindus And became a symbol of barbarity.

Describing Vijay Nagar empire in the fifteenth century, Italian traveler Nicolo Conti had written that this state is the most powerful state of India, in its treasury, gold is filled with molten golds and all the rich poor nations of the country People wear gold ornaments.

In the sixteenth century, Portuguese traveler Pease described the prosperity of the city, that the king here has the power of innumerable soldiers, abundant diamond gems, food reserves and business capabilities as well as incomparable funds. . Another Portuguese passenger understatement has also written confirming that the world's most famous diamond mines in Vijayanagara reveal the richness here.

In addition to the military and economic power, the emperor was also a scholar of Krishnadev Roy High Court. In addition to promoting Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil languages, they made substantial development of art and culture in their empire. They built grand temples like Krishna Swamy, Ram Swamy and Vittal Swamy and also developed the Hampi temple built in memory of Sant Swami Vidyanaya. Saint Vidyavanya Swami was not an ordinary saint. He got deep experience by sitting in Shri Phages of Bhubaneswarwari Devi and decorated the post of Shankaracharya of Sringeri Math as a disciple of Swami Bharathikrishna Teerath Ji Maharaj. When this skilled planner of the Vijayanagar empire left his life at the age of 118, the people of Karnataka established a grand statue of this great ascetic in the temple of Pampa area (Hampi), which is still a sown source for devotees. . Emperor Krishna Deva Rai's inspirational personality holds its place after considering the Vijayanagar empire as the ideal Hindu state in the world. (The author is a freelance commentator)

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