their position until their last breath. To secure an effective position for attacking the stubborn inmates inside the fort, Vijayanagar forces had to cut the rocky boulders and build paths through the surrounding hills. Since no help reached to the Odia forces, they had to surrender finally in the year 1514. A Balagopala idol of lord Sri Krishna was carried away by the Vijayanagar forces as victory trophy from the fort. Seizure of Kondavidu and captivity of the royal family members (1515 A.D) Krishnadeva's forces marched on the smaller forts surrounding the Kondaveedu Fort which formed a strong defensive perimeter of the main fort at Kondavidu. The forces of Vijayanagar were held up for six months due to the resistance of the defending bands and garrisons of Odia forces in the smaller forts like Addanki, Nagarjunakonda, Bellamkonada, Vinukonda, Ketavaram and Kindukuru. Prataparudra Deva reached Kondavidu with a strong army comprising 1300 war elephants and 20,000 cavalry compelling the enemy to retreat for a while. When the Gajapati moved out for Kondapalli, the seize of Kondavidu was again attempted. Some of the Odia officers were bribed and joined the Vijayanagar camp while the crown prince Virabhadra held up the fort for three months. A literary work of the Vijayanagar emperor himself called as Amuktamalyada mentions that the Odia soldiers inside the fort often died without enduring a single wound due to starvation. The Vijayanagar forces had to erect square wooden sheds around the fort and demolished the rampart walls for occupying the tower of the fort. The inmates surrendered the fort in and Virabhadra was taken as captive along with his son Narahari Patra other officers. The Boya chiefs of the Eighteen Kampanas together with 3,00,000 infantry of the Vijayanagar's army devastated and plundered the country dependent on Kondavidu, Kondapalli, Bellamkonda, Vinukonda, Nagarjuna Konda and other forts. Loss of Kondapalli Fort, the Gajapati administrative center of the Southern Territories During the invasion of Vijayanagar, the Qutb Shahi forces of Golconda were allied with Prataparudra Deva as they had the same enemy. After a brief fighting for two months at the Kondapalli Fort by the combined Odia and Qutb Shahi forces, it fell to Vijayanagar forces. The commander of the fort Sirishchandra Mohapatra and the queen of Prataparudra Deva were captured at the fort along with other Odia and Muslims from Golconda state by the Vijayanagar forces and taken as prisoners. After