The Sangama Dynasty was the primary empire of the Vijayanagar Empire. The successors of the dynasty were as follows:
Harihara I
Harihara I (1336-1356 CE) also called Hakka and Vira Harihara I, was the originator of the Vijayanagara Empire. He belonged to the Velama caste; nevertheless his descendants assert origin from the Kapu caste. Harihara I was Bhavana Sangama`s eldest son, belonged to the Kuruba family and was the initiator of the Sangama dynasty, the first among the four dynasties that lined Vijayanagara. Subsequently after impending power, he constructed a fort at Barkuru, on the west coast of present day Karnataka. The inscriptions indicate that he administerd the northern regions of present day Karnataka from his hold at Gutti, Ananthpur district in 1339.

Originally, he took charge of the northern sections of the Hoysala kingdom prior to captivating entire command over its intact series subsequent to the death of Hoysala Veera Ballala III in 1343. Kannada writings of his time describe him Karnataka Vidya Vilas (master of great knowledge and skills), Bhashegetappuvarayaraganda (nemesis of those feudatories who don`t sustain their pledge), Arirayavibhada (fire to enemy kings). Among his brothers, Kampana presided over Nellur province, Muddppa governed Mulabagalu region, Marappa oversaw Chandragutti and Bukka Raya was his subsequent in authority.

His original military exploits established his authority over the Valley of Tungabhadra River, while he steadily expanded his power to definite regions of Konkan and Malabar Coast. Until then, Hoysalas had lost its ultimate monarch Veera Ballala III who passed away skirmishing the Sultan of Madurai, and the void impeded Harihara I to materialize as a sovereign power. The complete Hoysala provinces fell under his tenet unswervingly. An inscription passé 1346 concerning a donation to the Sringeri matha specifies Harihara I as the sovereign of the "entire country amid the eastern and the western seas, and the writing illustrates Vidya Nagara (the city of learning) as his capital. Harihara I is accredited with founding a federal administrative setup and systematic ascendancy, inculcating tranquility, affluence, and safety to his subjects.

Harihara I was ascended by Bukka I who materialized as the most eminent amongst the five rulers (Panchasangamas) of the Sangama dynasty.

Bukka I
Bukka (1356-1377 CE) also identified as Bukka Raya I was an emperor of the Vijayanagar Empire from the Sangama Dynasty. Bukka demeaned Telugu poet Nachana Soma. The premature life of Bukka is fairly mysterious while the majority reports of their early life are founded on theories. One such theory circumstances that Bukka was born in the Kuruba race and was the commander in the army of the King of Warangal. After the King of Warangal was overpowered by Muhammad bin Tughlaq, Bukka and his brother were undertaken as captives and hurled to Delhi. Both were coerced to adapt Islam. Bukka and his brother ultimately eloped and maintained their Hindu traditions and founded the Vijayanagara Empire under the authority of the Brahmin sage Vidyaranya. A further description states that the brothers were in association with the Hoysala Empire and were born at the present day Karnataka near the Hampi territory, and were the descendants to the Hoysala province by natural progression.

Under Bukka Raya`s twenty one year reign (thirty seven according to Nuniz), the territory flourished and sustained to develop as Bukka Raya subjugated majority of empires of southern India, frequently mounting the territory of the realm. He overpowered the Shambuvaraya Kingdom of Arcot and the Reddis of Kondavidu by 1360 and the district around Penukonda was also seized. Bukka conquered the Sultanate of Madurai in 1371 and unlimited his province into the south all the way to Rameswaram. His son, Kumara Kamapna crusaded with him while their efforts were recorded in the Sanskrit work Madhuravijayam written by his wife Gangambika. By 1374 Bukka had attained a greater hand over the Bahmanis for power of the Tungabhadra-Krishna doab and also undertook charge of Goa. The kingdom of Orissa (Orya) was also captured and Bukka enforced the Jaffna kingdom of Ceylon and Malabar to pay homage to him.

During his reign Bukka also had conflicts with the Bahmani Sultans. The initial was during the time of Muhammad I and the other during the time of Mujahid. It is said that Bukka also sent an operation to China during his reign. Bukka died in 1380 and was succeeded by Harihara II. It is also notable that under Bukka Raya`s supremacy the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire established itself at Vijayanagara, on the southern side of the river, which was considered safe and defensive than their preceding capital at Anegondi. Along with the warfare and domestic divergence, Bukka still managed to help sustain internal enhancement for the city. Significant works of literature were also imprinted during his rule. Countless scholars subsisted under the supervision of Vidyaranya and Sayana. Sayana`s explanation on the Vedas, Brahmanas and Aranyakas was written under the aid of Bukka.

Harihara II
Bukka I was succeeded on the throne by his son Harihara II who ruled for twenty- seven years (1377-1404 CE). He patronized Kannada poet Madhura, a Jaina. An imperative work on Vedas was accomplished during his reign. He received the designations Vaidikamarga Sthapanacharya and Vedamarga Pravartaka. During his reign, Harihara II sustained to expand the kingdom`s province skirmishing against the Reddis of Kondavidu for authority over the coastal Andhra amid Nellore and Kalinga. From the Reddis of Kondavidu, Harihara II subjugated the Addanki and Srisailam areas as well as majority of the province connecting the peninsula to the south of the river Krishna, which would ultimately direct to conflicts in Telangana with the Velamas of Rachakonda. Harihara II took benefit of the demise of Mujahid Bahmani in 1378 and absolute his authority into the northwest, scheming the ports of Goa, Chaul, and Dabhol. Harihara II feinted from the capital Vijayanagara popularly known as Hampi.

Virupaksha
Subsequent to the demise of Harihara II in August 1404, the succession was violently disputed amid his sons. Virupaksha ascended to the throne. Virupaksha Raya (1404-1405 CE) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from the Sangama Dynasty. Virupaksha Raya ruled for a few months prior to murder by his sons. As he ruled for a few months, Virupaksha`s supremacy was not discernible with any noteworthy events or changes, although it is noted by the traveler Fernao Nuniz that Virupaksha Raya lost a lot of the kingdom`s land to the Muhammadans such as Goa, Chaul, and Dabhol and that Virupaksha was malicious.

Bukka Raya II
Bukka Raya II (1405 - 1406 CE) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from the Sangama Dynasty. After the death of Virupaksha Raya, Bukka Raya II succeeded him as emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire. However, analogous to his brother, Bukka Raya II only reigned for a short time period prior to his overthrow by his brother DevaRaya I.

Devaraya I
Deva Raya I (1406-1422 CE), akin to his grandfather Harihara II, patronized the Jain Kannada poet Madhura. During his reign, a clash over property amid the Shanka Jainalya of Gadag district and the Somesvara temple trust within the palace was matured harmoniously. An explanation of Persian writer Ferishta elucidates how the king fell in love with a beautiful girl from Mudugal in Raichur district leading to a war with the Bahamani Sultan and the ultimate overpower of Deva Raya.

After the demise of Harihara II there was a clash among his sons for the throne of the Vijayanagara Empire in which Deva Raya I eventually turned out as victor. Throughout his reign, Deva Raya was incessantly fought the Velamas of Telangana, the Bahmani Sultan of Gulbarga, and the Reddis of Kondavidu and the Gajaptis of Kalinga. Even so, Deva Raya proficiently managed the enormous amount of territory controlled by him. After his decease, Deva Raya was be succeeded by his sons Ramachandra Raya and Vijaya Raya.

Ramachandra Raya
Ramachandra Raya (1422-1422 CE), the son of Deva Raya I turned into the emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire after his father`s demise in 1422. During his supremacy no documented noteworthy transformations within the territory or major events were mentioned. Later, his brother Vijaya Bukka Raya succeeded him to the throne.

Veera Vijaya Bukka Raya
Veera Vijaya Bukka Raya (1422-1424 CE) also known as Vijaya Raya, was the son of Deva Raya I and succeeded his brother, Ramachandra Raya, in 1422 as the emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire. The traditional enmity with the Bahamanis sustained, when Ahmad Shah began war against Vijaya Raya and inflicted a defeat on his forces and great slaughter and destruction on the civil populace of the country. His diminutive supremacy terminated in 1424 when his son Deva Raya II ascended him.

Deva Raya II
Deva Raya II (1424-1446 CE) was perhaps the supreme of the Sangama dynasty rulers. He patronized some of the famed Kannada and Telugu poets of the time. Kannada poets like Lakkana Dandesa, Chamarasa and Jakkanarya, Kumara Vyasa and along with Telugu poets Srinatha, who was immersed in a shower of gold coins (tankas) were the most eminent. It is said that Srinatha apprehended the identical position in his court as senior ministers and enthused liberally along with the sovereign. The King was an intellect in his own right and engraved Mahanataka Sudhanidhi in Sanskrit.

Deva Raya II ascended his father Veera Vijaya Bukka Raya subsequent to his petite uneventful two year reign. Contrasting his father, Deva Raya II was an efficient and triumphant emperor. During his control, Deva Raya II triumphed over his invasion of Kondavidu in 1432, repelled the incursions of Ahmad Shah I of the Bahamanis and preserved the Mudgal fort in 1436 but lost a few areas in the Raichur doab in 1443, overpowered the Gajapati of Orissa three times in 1427, 1436 and 1441, refurbished the Reddi Kingdom of Rajamahendri to its previous arrangement, wrestled against the Sultan Ala-Ud-Din (centered around the forts of Mudgal and Raichur in the Krishna - Tungabhadra doab) and sustained beyond to Kerala where he defeated the ruler of Quilon as well as other rulers. He attacked Lanka and composed rich tributes there. The sovereign of Calicut as also the kings of Burma edicting at Pegu and Tanasserim paid homages.

Abdul Razzak, the Persian ambassador who visited southern India in 1443 inscribed that in general, Deva Raya II extended the Vijayanagara Empire from Orissa to Malabar, and Ceylon to Gulbarga as well as captivating multiple ports of South India. Yet, the issue with the Bahmani kingdoms had not been determined and the two kingdoms sustained to be antagonistic to each other throughout Deva Raya II`s sovereignty. Bahamani invasions were ineffective and ultimately throngd the Bahamani sovereign Ahmad Shah I to move his capital to Bidar during his incursion of the empire in 1426. Towards conclusion of his reign, Deva Raya II succeeded in conquering all of South India as well as conveying the empire into a golden age of affluence.

Culture and the Arts
Deva Raya II`s reign was also a time when art and ethnicity burgeoned throughout the kingdom. He attained the designation Gajaventekara or Gajabetekara as he aced the art of elephant hunting. It was during this time that several shrines were raised all through the capital, art was buoyant, revenue was hauled out through tributes from Ceylon (under the command of the naval leader Lakkanna who was also a Kannada poet), men of letters in Sanskrit and Vernaculars were encouraged, and the kingdom crossed the threshold of an era of opulence both economically and ethnically marked as the golden age of the Sangama Dynasty.

Mallikarjuna Raya
Mallikarjuna Raya (1446-1465 CE ascended his father Deva Raya II, who brought opulence throughout the Vijayanagara empire as well as a golden age for the Sangama Dynasty. However, Mallikarjuna Raya was dissimilar to his father, and was a weak and fraudulent monarch. During the commencement of his reign he shielded the realm from the assails of the Bahamani Sultan and the Raja of the Hindu kingdom of Orissa, but subsequently it was manifested by a sequence of defeats: the Gajapatis subjugated Rajamahendri in 1454, Udayagiri and Chandragiri in 1463 and the Bahamani kingdoms took over much of the Vijayanagara Empire by 1450 and grew closer to the capital, while at the same time the Portuguese arrived in southern India, captivating several ports on the western coast controlled by the Vijayanagara Empire. These proceedings ultimately led to the decline of the Sangama Dynasty; Mallikarjuna Raya`s cousin Virupaksha Raya II undertook the prospect to grab the throne.

Virupaksha Raya II
Virupaksha Raya II (1465-1485 CE) ascended his uncle, Mallikarjuna Raya, a corrupt and weak ruler who repeatedly lost against the empire`s enemies. Although, Virupaksha Raya II was not a superior ruler as compared to his predecessor, throughout his reign, Virupaksha was faced with mutinous aristocrats and officers as well as multiple opponents that began invading the weakened realm. It was during this time that Virupaksha Raya II lost the Konkan coast (including Goa, Chaul, and Dabul) by 1470 to Prime Minister Mahamud Gawan from the Bahamani kingdom, who was sent to triumph over the area by the Sultan Muhammad Shah III.

The Bahmani Sultan would also invade Doab of Krishna and Tungabhadra, and the Raja Purushottama Gajati of Orissa invaded Tiruvannamalai. Because of these losses, Virupaksha became increasingly unpopular and ignited many of the empire`s provinces to rebel, eventually leading up to Virupaksha`s death in the hands of his own son, Praudharaya in 1485. Praudharaya himself was not able to salvage the kingdom but fortunately, an able general Saluva Narasimha took control of the empire in 1485 and helped to prevent it`s demise, though this change of power would mark the end of the Sangama Dynasty and the beginning of the Saluva Dynasty.

Praudha Raya
Praudha Raya (also known as Praudha Devaraya) was an unpopular king of Vijayanagara Empire who ruled for a reasonably diminutive period of time being driven out of the capital by his able commander Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya in 1485. He wrote Ratiratnapradipika.