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The Telugu Chodas of Pottapi and Nellore

Era: Eastern Chalukyas & the Deccan powers, Kakatiyas

The Telugu Chodas of Pottapi and NelloreKrishnaPottapiPottapiNelloreNelloreKavaliKavaliKandukurKandukurKonidenaKonidenaMotupalliMotupalliKanchipuramKanchipuramNandalurTiruvalangadu (Tammusiddhi, 1207–08)N0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation

Places in the records of the Telugu Chodas who called themselves Madhurantaka Pottapi-Cholas: Pottapi on the Cheyyeru, their early seat; Nellore (Vikramasimhapura), where Tammusiddhi was anointed in 1205 and from which Tikka I and Manumasiddhi II ruled the Pakanadu; Kavali, with Tammusiddhi's agrahara of 1207–08; Nandalur, with gifts of Tikka I and Manumasiddhi II; Kanchipuram, which Tikka I and his successors held; Kandukur; Konidena, seat of a related branch; and Motupalli, near Nayanapalle, where an inscription of the Kakatiya Ganapatideva tells of the restoration of the ruler of Nellore.

Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).

Sources

  1. C. F. Brackenbury, Madras District Gazetteers: Cuddapah, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1915, pp. 30–34. [Public domain]
  2. E. Hultzsch (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VII (1902–03), with Kielhorn's List of Inscriptions of Southern India (opens in a new tab), Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta (scan of the ASI 1981 facsimile reprint), 1903, pp. 119–122, 152. [Public domain]
  3. Alan Butterworth and V. Venugopaul Chetty, A Collections of the Inscriptions on Copper-Plates and Stones in the Nellore District, Madras, in Three Parts, Part II (opens in a new tab), 1905, pp. 734–740, 836–853. [Public domain]
  4. Robert Sewell (ed. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar), The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (Collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History (opens in a new tab), University of Madras, 1932, pp. 102–108, 130–177. [Public domain in India]
  5. B. Ch. Chhabra and N. Lakshminarayan Rao (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXVII (1947–48) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1956, pp. 193–195. [Public domain in India]