The Musunuri Nayakas
Era: Nayakas, Reddis & Bahmanis
- Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
- Present-day state borders, for orientation
Places in the records of the Musunuri chiefs who freed the Telugu country from the Delhi Sultanate: Prolaya Nayaka's capital Rekapalli on the Godavari and the village of Vilasa that he granted; Guraja, findspot of Kapaya Nayaka's grant of 1346; Warangal, which Kapaya took from the Delhi governors; Ganapesvaram, with an inscription of his reign; Korukonda and Addanki, seats of his kinsmen and allies; and Kaulas and Golconda, lost to the Bahmanis.
Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).
Sources
- D. C. Sircar and B. Ch. Chhabra (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXII (1957–58) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1959, pp. 242, 254, 256. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
- Madras Government (Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle), Annual Report on South-Indian Epigraphy for the Year ending 31st March 1935 (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1938, pp. 73–74. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
- H. Krishna Sastri (ed.), South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts), Vol. IV (opens in a new tab), Government of Madras / Archaeological Survey of India, 1923, No. 950. [Public domain]
- Sten Konow (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XIII (1915–16) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, Calcutta, 1916, pp. 260. [Public domain]
- Muhammad Qasim Ferishta (tr. John Briggs), History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India till the Year A.D. 1612, Vol. II (opens in a new tab), Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, 1829, pp. 293, 305–306. [Public domain]
- V. Yashoda Devi, After the Kakatiyas (opens in a new tab), Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi, Hyderabad, 1975, pp. 50–51. Cite-only. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]