Venkatapati Raya
Venkatapati Raya (or Venkata II, r. 1585–1614 CE) was the younger brother of Sriranga Deva Raya (also the youngest son of Tirumala Deva Raya) and the ruler of Vijayanagara Empire with bases in Penukonda, Chandragiri and Vellore.
His reign of three decades saw a revival of the strength and prosperity of the empire.
He dealt successfully with the Deccan sultans of Bijapur and Golkonda, the internal disorders, promoting economic revival in the country.
He brought rebelling Nayakas of Tamil Nadu and parts of present-day Andhra Pradesh under control.
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Deva Raya
Deva Raya I (reigned 1406–1422 CE) was a king of the Vijayanagara Empire (of the Sangama Dynasty).
After Harihara II died there was a dispute between his sons over the throne in which Deva Raya I eventually emerged victor.
He was a very capable ruler noted for his military exploits and his support to irrigation works in his kingdom.
He modernized the Vijayanagara army by improving the cavalry, employing Turkic archers, procuring horses from Arabia and Persia.
Of Deva Raya I, the Italian traveler Nicolo Conti, who visited Vijayanagara in c.1420, described thus: "In this city, there are 90,000 men fit to bear arms...
there king is more powerful than all the kings of India".
Conti also noted that the royal city had grown to a circumference of 60 mi.
Deva Raya
I was a patron of Kannada literature and architecture.
Madhura, a noted Jain poet was in his court (and also in the court of his father King Harihara II) and wrote in Kannada the "Dharmanathapurana" on the life of the fifteenth Jain Tirthankar (Dharmanatha), and a poem in eulogy of Gommateshvara of Shravanabelagola.
The noted Hazare Rama temple, an excellent example of Deccan architecture was constructed during his rule.
One of Deva Raya's queens Bhima Devi was a disciple of the Jain guru Abhinava Charukirti Panditacharya.
She was a devotee of Shantinatha, 16th Jain "tirthankara" and built a temple at the Mangayi Basti in Shravanabelagola.
Praudha Raya
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He wrote the" Ratiratnapradipika", a book on erotics.
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Tirumala Deva Raya
Tirumala Deva Raya (reign 1565–1572 CE) was the first Crowned King of the Vijayanagara Empire from the Aravidu Dynasty.
He was the younger brother of Aliya Rama Raya and son-in-law of Krishna Deva Raya.
When Rama Raya was killed in the Talikota battle in 1565 he immediately emptied the treasury and fled the capital to taking with him the Royal family and the minor crown prince Sadasiva Raya.
He, after a few years of hardships, reestablished the Vijaynagar rule in Penukonda, in present-day Andhra Pradesh.
During this time the Southern Nayakas of Madurai and Gingee declared partial independence, while some others rebelled over Tirumala Deva Raya’s authority.
In 1567 he encountered another attack by the Bijapur Sultan; this time the Sultan was defeated, but also lost some territories.
Tirumala Deva Raya later tactfully approved the new status of Southern Nayaks, who still paid some tributes and held him as their emperor.
Tanjore and Mysore rulers still paid the annual tributes while Madurai and Gingee rulers grudgingly followed.
Tirumala Deva Raya also retained most of the Vijaynagar territories and assumed the title “Reviver of the Decadent Karnataka Empire”.
In 1570 he split the Viceroyalty among his three sons: first son Sriranga
(Sriranga I) in Penukonda in charge of Telugu country, second son Rama (father of Sriranga II) in Srirangapatna in charge of the Kannada country and third son Venkata (a.k.a. Venkata II) in Chandragiri in charge of Tamil country.
Penukonda was the Capital of the empire.
Tirumala Deva Raya retired in 1572 after feeling too old to rule and retired to a religious life of living till 1578.
Sriranga Deva Raya
Sriranga Deva Raya( a.k.a. Sriranga I)( r. 1572– 1586 CE) was the eldest son of Tirumala Deva Raya and a king of Vijayanagara empire based at Penukonda.
He carried the restoration of the Vijayanagara empire, but his reign was marred with repeated attacks and loss of territories from his Muslim neighbours.
In 1576, the Bijapur Sultan Ali Adil Shah I laid siege to his fort in Penukonda for three months, but at the end Sriranga Deva bought out the Adil Shah ’s Hindu lieutenants which helped his commanders defeat the Sultan ’s army at that time.
Sriranga Deva Raya died in 1586, without an heir and was succeeded by his youngest brother Venkatapathi Raya( Venkata II).

Question: Who is the uncle of Venkatapati Raya?
Answer: Aliya Rama Raya