Bhandaru Lakshminarayana, a musicologist during the reign of Shri Krishnadevaraya records in his work, the Sangitasuryodaya on how the great Hindu king crossed the Krishna river & burnt down the whole of the यवनजनपदं (muhammadan kingdom) & captured the 3 sons of the sultan. 
The Sangitasuryodaya is one among the 9 important musicological treatises written during the Vijayanagara era. The others are Sangitasara by Vidhyaranya, Taladipika by Tippendra, Sangitakalanidi by Kallinatha, Bhandaru Vittaleshwara's commentary on Sarangadeva's Sangeetaratnakara
Bhandaru Lakshminarayana's Sangitasuryodaya, Achyutadevaraya's Talakalavriddhi, Ramamatya's Swaramelakalanidhi. Carnatic music owes a lot to all the above works. Among all the works,the Sangeetaratnakara deserves a special mention? Why? Because it was almost lost due to invasions
The Sangeeta ratnakara was authored by Sarngadeva somewhere between in the mid 12th century. The text was lost during turushka invasion of Devagiri(Maharashtra) in 1308. It somehow made its way after more than a century to Vijayanagara.
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Although the Sangeeta ratnakara was a text authored in Devagiri, it is considered as among the Sangitashastra navaratna of Vijayanagara. If not for the patronage of Vijayanagara rulers, so many of our priceless texts would have been lost forever. This is just a small example.
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