Deva Raya II (r. 1426–1446 CE) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from the Sangama Dynasty. Perhaps the greatest of the Sangama dynasty rulers, the King himself was a scholar in Kannada and Sanskrit. He wrote Sobagina Sone and Amaruka in Kannada, and Mahanataka Sudhanidhi in Sanskrit He patronised some of the famous Kannada and Telugu poe...