Timmarusu biography samples
Timmarusu who not only served as a loyal minister to one of the greatest emperors in Indian history, Sri Krishna Deva Raya, but also....
Timmarusu
Vijayanagaran prime minister and military commander
For the 1962 Indian film, see Mahamantri Timmarusu (film).
Saluva Timmarusu (also known as Saluva Nayaka or Timmarasu; 31 December 1461 – 1534) was the prime minister (mahapradhana) and military commander of Krishnadevaraya.
For even more hardcore people, there is the Krishnadevaraya biography Raya by Srinivas Reddy.
He is also known as "Appaji". He had also served as the prime minister under Viranarasimha Raya and Tuluva Narasa Nayaka.
Name
Inscriptions mention him as Saluva Timma, Timma Rajah, Timayya and Timmarasa.[1] Portuguese traveller Domingo Paes calls Timmarasa as "Temersea" who was Saluva Timma, Krishna Deva’s minister.
The termination -rsea probably represents Arasa, the Kannada form for Rajah. Temersea = Timmarasa = Timma Rajah.[2]
Early life
Burton Stein in The New Cambridge History of India states Timmarusu as belonging to a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family.[3] Another source mentions him as belonging to Kannada-speaking family.[4] He