# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deva-raya-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:38:44.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deva-raya-ii"
name: "Deva Raya II"
slug: "deva-raya-ii"
description: "Deva Raya II was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire. He is considered by many as the greatest of the Sangama dynasty rulers, he was an able administrator, warrior, and scholar. He authored well-known works in Kannada and Sanskrit. He was patron to some of the most noted Kannada poets of the medieval period, including Chamarasa and Kumara Vyasa, the Sanskrit poet Gunda Dimdima, and the noted Telugu language poet Srinatha, whom the king honored with the title Kavisarvabhauma. He supported development in secular literature as well as the noted South Indian mathematician Parameshvara, from the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in his empire."
tagline: "Vijayanagara emperor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Devaraya_II_coin.png/330px-Devaraya_II_coin.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
deathDate: "1446"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.99395733333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump