Krishnadevaraya Part 7: 1520-1529 — The Death of Krishnadeva Raya

The epic story of Vijayanagara's greatest king reaches its tragic conclusion. This episode traces Krishnadevaraya's final decade, from the hubris of his triumph at Raichur to his death in 1529. Ramjee Chandran follows the emperor from the sacking of Bijapur and the capture of Gulbarga to the heartbreaking decline marked by the death of his only son, the suspicion of betrayal and the hasty blinding of his lifelong mentor Timmarasu, and his own final illness. It is a tale of how one man's greatness was ultimately undone by personal loss and a fatal misjudgment born of grief.

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