Indian Antiquary Vol 38

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1909.
are not specified. From their dates it may be concluded that they were probably Kékatiya fendatories. Gangaya SÅbiņi and Tripurârideva-Mabârâja of the Kayastha family, who are mentioned in the Tripurantakam inscriptions, are represented in the Nellore volume by two records in the Darsi Division (D. 25 and D. 1). Ambadeva-Mabârâja, the younger brother of Tripuráridáva Maharaja, was the most powerful of the family. His claim to have established Manmagandagopala at Vikramasimhapura (i. e., Nellore) has been already mentioned. No inscriptions of his time are found in the volume before us and his boast, therefore, remains unconfirmed.
The Mannepalli copper-plates (CP. 17) are dated during the reign of the Kakatiya king Ganapati and record a gift by * chief named Sårigadhara who belonged to the Balankayana-gátra and was the son of a certain Madhava, Six stone inscriptions which may be attributed to this feudatory family have been found in the Ongole tâluke (0.28, 0.76, 0. 101, 0, 103, 0. 150, and 0. 151). Its influence seems to have been confined to the extreme north of the district. The chief town of the family is said to bave been the city of Addanki. Its members bore the surname Chakranarayana. Their dates range from Saka-Samvat 1170 to 11948corresponding to A. D. 1247-48 to 1273-74. Three chiefs of the family are known, ris. Madhava, Sarngadhara and Singa or Singala. The relation of the last to the other two is not specified." The compilers of the Nellore volumo suggest that the family might be connected with the Séuņas.
The Kakatiya general Mappidi-Nayaka who captured Conjeeveram in A. D. 1816, is represented by a considerable number of records in the Atmakûr (A. 56), Kandukur (KR. 1, KR. 28 and KR. 84), Nellore (N. 80), and Ongole (0.87) talukas, ranging in date from A. D. 1294-5 to 1815-16, from some of which it appears that he was in the service of the Kakatiyas already during the time of Prataparudra's predecessor Rudradêra-Mabaraja. In fact, it is said in one of the inscriptions (A. 56) that Rudradeva bod placed the burden of the kingdom on him. KR. 23 reports that Mappidi-Nayaka's father's name was Nagi-Nayadu and his mother's name Gangasanamma.
The Reddis. Beforo attempting a survey of the feudatory families that held sway over Nellore, 1 remarked that the Kakatiya dominions were in a state of disorder like the rest of Southern India in consequence of the Mubammadan invasions. According to Mr. Sewell, Krishna, son of Pratâparudra, "turned the tables in 1344, by making a grand combination of Hindu States and driving the Muhammadags out of the country." This combination among the Hindu States is not unlikely, as in the earliest Reddi inscriptions, 07 dated in Saks-Samyat 1267=A. D. 1845, Vêms who built a flight of steps at Srisailam is called the very Agastya to the ocean which was the Mechchuins." He is also said to have "restored all the agraháras of Brahmanas which had been taken away by the wicked Mlêchchha kings from the time of king Vira-Rudra of the Kakati-vamsa." At any rate, order had been restored in the Telugu country (or, in a portion of it at least), in or before A. D. 1345, by the Reddis of Kondavidu, who belonged to the cultivating caste. Why and how the Reddis became rulers is nowhere explained. It
- Above, Vol. XXXVII., p. 857.
* 0.76 appears to be dated in Baka-Sarvat 1180, the cyclio year Vibhava. But the Bake and cyclio yours do not agree, the editors of the Nellore rolame have apparently accepted Baka-8abat 1130 the corroat date of the inscription, boonuse it corresponded to the cyolia year Vibhare The rooord belongs to the time of the Kikatiys fendatory Madhava-Maharaje. As we have an epigraph of Madhavadhya-Mahlrkja of the same family dated in Baka-Sathyat 1104 (O. 101), it is doubtfal if the assumption of the editors is justifiable.
# D.79.0.8. 0. 27. O. 84, 0.86, . 88, 0.89, and 0.100 probably belong to the same family, * Abore, Vol. XXXVII, p. 357,
List of Antiquitia, VoL IL. P. 174 Seo my Animal Report on Epigraphy for 1899-10, p. 281, and Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII., p. .