Saluva King Narasimha Raya constructed a pillared
hall at the center of the pond in 1468.
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His descendents founded the Saluva Dynasty and were
one of the ruling lines of the Vijayanagara Empire of Southern India.
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The earliest known Saluva from inscriptional evidence in the Vijayanagara era was Mangaldeva,
the great grandfather of Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya.
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In 1509 When on his death bed,
legend has it that Vira Narasimha Raya requested his minister Saluva Thimma(Thimmarasa) to blind his younger brother Krishna Deva Raya
so that his own eight-year-old son could become king of Vijayanagar.