Veera Ramanatha

Ramanatha
King of the Hoysala Empire
Reign1263–1297 CE
Coronation1254 CE
PredecessorVira Someshwara
SuccessorNarasimha III (in Karnataka territories)
DynastyHoysala dynasty
FatherVira Someshwara
MotherQueen Devaladevi
ReligionJainism

Vira Ramanatha (Kannada: ವೀರ ರಾಮನಾಥ) (1263–1297 CE) was a king of the southern portion of the Hoysala Empire. In 1254 CE, Hoysala king Vira Someshwara divided his kingdom between his two sons, Narasimha III (reign c. 1263–1292 CE) who ruled from Halebidu (Dorasamudra or Dwarasamudra), their original capital, had got the greater part of the ancestral kingdom and Vira Ramanatha Deva (reign c. 1254/1263–1295 CE) obtained the remaining part consisting of the present Kolar district and the Tamil territories conquered by the Hoysalas in the south, and ruled from Kannanur Kuppam near Srirangam. Like his father Narasimha II, Someshwara stayed back at Kannanur with Ramanatha where he was killed in 1262/1263 CE in a war with Sadayavarman Sundara Pandyan I of the Pandya dynasty.