Induluri Annaya

The Induluri family

The Induluri family of ministers is known mainly from the Sivayogasara, a Telugu Shaiva work by Kolani Ganapati, a later member of the family. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry calls it a work of the same time in one passage, and a work of the fifteenth century in another.¹²

According to it the family were Brahmans of the Kaundinya gotra (family line) and of the Aradhya Shaiva sect.² Their ancestor Nana Gaura moved from the village of Induluru to Anumakonda.² His sons Pedamalla and Chinamalla served Rudradeva when the king moved to Orugallu (Warangal).² One was his commander and the other his chief accountant.²

Pedamalla had two sons, Soma and Peda Ganna.³⁴ Soma conquered the Kolanu country for Ganapatideva and was afterwards called Kolani Soma.³⁴ Annaya was Peda Ganna’s son.³⁴ Parabrahma Sastry noted that Soma, though a Brahman and a mahapradhana (chief minister), took up arms and rose to be one of the foremost generals of the king.³

Son-in-law of Rudramadevi

Annaya married Ruyyama, a daughter of Queen Rudramadevi.⁵⁶ Parabrahma Sastry counted three daughters of the queen and made Ruyyama the third.⁵ N. Venkataramanayya and M. Somasekhara Sarma knew of only two, and made her the second.⁷⁸

As mahapradhana and commander he helped the queen in her government and wars.⁵⁸ He is named among her ministers as related to the royal family.⁵⁸

The war with Ambadeva

In 1291 Annaya and his cousin Manuma Gannaya, son of Kolani Soma, led the Kakatiya army against the Kayastha chief Ambadeva at Tripurantakam. Ambadeva’s last record there is dated 13 June 1291.⁹¹⁰ The first Kakatiya record, of Annaya and Manuma Gannaya, is dated 11 August 1291.⁹¹⁰

The Sivayogasara says that Annaya seized seventy of Ambadeva’s forts and defeated the chief of Mopuru in the Marjavadi country.⁶ After that he took the titles Raya-chauhattamalla and Iruvattu-ganda.⁶

Minister of Prataparudra

Annaya was one of the loyal ministers of Prataparudra. The Sivayogasara says that he commanded the fifth battalion of the Kakatiya army, which had a hundred thousand foot soldiers and twelve thousand horsemen.⁶ During the Muslim invasions he was given the defence of the stone fort of Orugallu.⁶

He governed the Vengi country from Suravaram, and he placed his nephew Parvata Mallu in charge of the fort of Rajahmundry.⁶

In 1289 he granted land to the scholar Viddanacharya.¹¹⁶¹² The copper plates that record the grant were found at Khandavalli, and they bear a seal with the legend Dayagajakesari.¹¹⁶¹² Parabrahma Sastry used this seal to assign coins with the same legend to Prataparudra.¹¹⁶¹²

His cousin Kolani Rudra, who kept the royal seal, wrote a Sanskrit commentary on grammar.⁶

Footnotes

1. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 10. ↩

2. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 161. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 117. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

4. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), pp. 161–163. ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 128. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

6. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 163. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

7. N. Venkataramanayya and M. Somasekhara Sarma, “The Kakatiyas of Warangal”, in G. Yazdani (ed.), The Early History of the Deccan, Parts VII–XI (1960), p. 641. ↩

8. N. Venkataramanayya and M. Somasekhara Sarma, “The Kakatiyas of Warangal”, in G. Yazdani (ed.), The Early History of the Deccan, Parts VII–XI (1960), p. 642. ↩ ↩² ↩³

9. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 130. ↩ ↩²

10. N. Venkataramanayya and M. Somasekhara Sarma, “The Kakatiyas of Warangal”, in G. Yazdani (ed.), The Early History of the Deccan, Parts VII–XI (1960), p. 635. ↩ ↩²

11. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 6. ↩ ↩² ↩³

12. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 259. ↩ ↩² ↩³