1 Jital - Deva Raya II

Deva Raya II is widely regarded as the most capable ruler of the Sangama dynasty, and his twenty-year reign saw Vijayanagara reach its greatest territorial extent before the empire's later Tuluva resurgence under Krishnadevaraya. He recruited Muslim cavalry archers and Turkic mercenaries into the imperial army — a pragmatic military reform that contemporaries noted with some surprise — and repelled repeated Bahmani Sultanate incursions into the Deccan. Copper jitals of this period circulated heavily in local markets and temple economies across the Karnataka plateau.