It was a gift by Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka, then king of Warangal (or Telingana), during the Bahmani-Vijayanagar War, where the Bahmanis defeated the latter.
During the reign of Mohammad Bin Tughluq, two new kingdoms arose in the south of Deccan, namely, the Vijayanagara Empire and the Madurai Sultanate.
A precursor of this truce was a joint attack by the Kapaya Nayaka and the Vijayanagara forces to capture the Raichur fort being foiled by Muhammad Shah Bahmani.
Kapaya Nayaka agreed to present the Bahmani with such a wonderful gift that is worthy only to be offered to a great king if they accept a truce and fix a frontier between the two kingdoms.
[6]: 21–22 This came after Nagadeva,[note 2] son of Kapaya Nayaka was brutally killed aftermath of a war with the Bahmani Sultanate.
[6]: 21–23 The throne was packed in a large wooden box at Warangal and was concealed so that its contents remain unknown until it is presented to the Sultan Mohammed Shah I at Gulbarga.
[9] When ascending the new throne, Sultan named it taxt-i-fīrozā due to the color of the enamel work and predominant precious stones.
[5]: 39 Ever since the capital was shifted from Gulbarga to Bidar by Ahmad Shah, the Takht-i-Firoza throne was placed in the grand hall of audience [note 5] and surrounded on its two sides by silver chairs used as seats for the holy men.