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tha balo 'pi samgrāma-ramga-samhrita-yavana-ädhipa-subhata-ghōṭak-ätöpaḥ), i.e. king of the Musalmans.
Prōlaya-nayaka, son of Pochi-nayaka, is, no doubt, identical with his namesake of the Musunuri family, the donor of the grant under review. The Pentapaḍu grant referred to above, not only confirms the account of the liberation of the coastal Andhra country furnished by the grant under review, but also reveals to us the names of two of his associates, Venga and Bhaktirājathe former his elder and the latter a younger contemporary-who played an important part in the war of independence, even though their achievements are unknown to us from that grant. It is probable that Pochi-nayaka, the father of Prōlaya-nayaka, also lost his life during this memorable war. The unnamed vana-durga to which Prola and Venga repaired, may be safely identified with Rekapalli, the capital of Prōlaya-nayaka, situated near the Malyavanta mountain mentioned in the present grant. Nothing more is known about either Venga-bhupati or his ancestors.
Some more information about the achievements of Chōda Bhaktirāja such as the defeat of Boggara and other Muhammadan warriors in the battle near Gulapuṇḍi, his conquest of the demoniac forces of Dabaru-khanu and others near Pedakoṇḍāpuri may be gleaned from the undated Rajahmundry Museum plates of his son, Annadeva-chōḍa.
As has already been stated, the Kaluvacheru grant of Anitalli also attests to the fact of the liberation of the Trilinga country by Prölaya-nayaka and of Kapaya-nayaka's rule over it. This grant mentions Vêma of the Panța community, as one of the seventy-five Nayakas that served Kapaya-nayaka. He was the son of Prölaya-reddi and the founder of the Reddi kingdom of Kondavidu. Vēma was thus a contemporary and loyal associate of the Musunuri chief, Kāpayanayaka, and probably of his cousin and predecessor, Prōlaya-nayaka. His Mallavaram atone record, dated in Saka 1247 (October 7, 1325 A.D.), describes him as the very Agastya to the ocean, namely, Mlechchas (Mlechchh-abdhi-Kumbhödbhava), and indicates the region of his activities during the period of this war. As he is stated to have re-granted the agrahāras to Brahmanas which were foremerly taken away by the Muslims, after rescuing them from the enemy, on the banks of the three important rivers, the Gautami, the Krishņā, and the Brahmakuṇḍī or Kunḍiprabba, i.e. the Gundlakamma, he must have participated in the war against the Muhammadans in the region through which these rivers flow. Vema's victory over the Yavanas, i.e. Muhammadans, the protection by him of Madhy-Andhra-desa, i.e. the Middle Andhra country, and the patronage of Brahmanas, are also referred to by his court poet Yarra-Preggada in his Harivamsam. He loyally co-operated with the Musunuri chiefs, Prōla and Kapa, during the early post-Kakatiya period and contributed to the success of the war of independence. It seems strange that the Kaluvachēru grant mentions Vēma as the subordinate of Kapaya-nayaka and not of Prōlaya-nayaka, though his contemporaneity with the latter is indubitable. This was probably due to the fact that the adminstration of the country was left in the hands of Kapaya-nayaka by his cousin Prōla, after the conquest of the country, as has been stated in the grant under review.
This record registers, on the occasion of a lunar eclipse, the grant of Vilasa, the best of the fertile villages of the Kōna-mandala on the banks of the Godavari, as an agrahara to Vennaya, the elder brother of Ganapay-arya and son of Annaya, grandson of Vennaya and great-grandson of Annaya of the Bharadvaja götra and Yajur-věda. The donee is described in high sounding terms as a learned scholar of note and a well-to-do person of charitable disposition. Several yāyajukas of blemishless conduct, who had performed many sacrifices with the money given by him, are said to have shone like the flags of fame, etc. When Prōlaya-nayaka,
1 Above, Vol. XXVI, No. 2.
J.Tel.Ac., Vol. II, pp. 93-112; Bhārati, Vol. XXI, Part I, pp. 553 ff.; Part II, pp. 61 f. Nellore District Inscriptions, Vol. III, Ongole 73.
• Harivamiam, Part I, 5,260; Part II. 2,1,
