The Eastern Chalukyas and Vengi
This path follows the kings of the Vengi coast and their neighbours in the Deccan, and the beginning of Telugu writing. It has 15 pages and takes about 3 hours to read.
- ErasEastern Chalukyas & the Deccan powers
The big picture: the Eastern Chalukyas on the coast and the Deccan powers inland.
- DynastiesChalukyas of Badami
The Chalukyas of Badami, who took the Kolleru lake country and left a brother in Vengi.
- PeoplePulakesin II
The Badami king who conquered Vengi and gave it to his younger brother.
- DynastiesEastern Chalukyas of Vengi
The Chalukya branch that ruled Vengi, fought the Rashtrakutas and was later bound to the Cholas.
- PeopleKubja Vishnuvardhana
The founder of the Eastern Chalukya line, and the debate over when his rule in Vengi began.
- DynastiesRashtrakutas of Malkhed
The Deccan dynasty of Manyakheta that fought the Eastern Chalukyas for two centuries.
- PeopleGunaga Vijayaditya III
The Vengi king whose general is praised in one of the earliest Telugu verse inscriptions.
- DynastiesChalukyas of Vemulavada
The Chalukya chiefs of northern Telangana, and their link with the poets Pampa and Somadeva Suri.
- DynastiesTelugu Cholas of Renadu
The kings of Renandu, whose stone inscriptions are among the earliest written wholly in Telugu.
- DynastiesCholas of Tanjore
The Chola emperors of the Tamil country, overlords of much of the Telugu country.
- PeopleRajaraja Narendra
The king of Rajahmundry whom Telugu tradition remembers as the patron of Nannaya.
- PeopleNannaya
The poet of the earliest surviving Telugu literary work, the first books of the Telugu Mahabharata.
- PeopleKulottunga I
The Vengi prince who took the Chola throne and united the two crowns.
- DynastiesWestern Chalukyas of Kalyani
The Chalukyas of Kalyani, who held Telangana and fought the Cholas for Vengi.
- MonumentsBhimesvara temple, Draksharama
The most famous temple of the coastal Telugu country, with some 270 inscriptions on its walls.