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Tirumala Deva Raya
Emperor
Emperor of Vijayanagara
Reign	1570 – 1572 CE
Predecessor	Sadasiva Raya
Successor	Sriranga I
Spouse	Vengalamba
Issue	Sriranga Deva Raya Venkatapati Deva Raya
Dynasty	Aravidu
Religion	Hinduism

Tirumala Deva Raya (r. 1570 - 1572 CE) was the first crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara from the Aravidu Dynasty. He was the younger brother of Rama Raya and the husband of princess Vengalamba, making him the son-in-law of Emperor Krishna Deva Raya. Following the Battle of Talikota, he rescued the last Tuluva Emperor, Sadasiva Raya, and relocated the imperial capital to Penukonda. After Sadasiva's death in 1570 CE, he ascended as the Emperor of Vijayanagara. He was succeeded by his son, Sriranga I in 1572.

Muslim Invasion of Penukonda

Tirumala Raya escaped the Battle of Talikota and afterwards shifted his capital to Penukonda. He later repulsed a Muslim invasion on Penukonda.

References

1. Eaton, Richard (2019). "The Deccan and the South, 1400-1650". India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765. Penguin Books. p. 175.
2. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Sakkottai (1919). Sources of Vijayanagar history. University of California Libraries.  : The University of Madras. p. 19.

Bibliography

• Rao, Velcheru Narayana; Shulman, David Dean; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (1992), Symbols of substance: court and state in Nāyaka Period Tamilnadu, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-563021-3
• Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta (1958), A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar (Second ed.), Indian Branch, Oxford University Press
• Subrahmanyam, Sanjay; Shulman, David (2008), "The Men who would be King? The Politics of Expansion in Early Seventeenth-Century Northern Tamilnadu", Modern Asian Studies, 24 (2): 225–248, doi:10.1017/S0026749X00010301, ISSN 0026-749X, S2CID 146726950

• 1578 deaths
• 16th-century Indian monarchs
• Vijayanagara emperors
• People from Anantapur district
• Indian Hindus
• Aravidu dynasty