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Konidena

Village south of the Krishna, in the former Guntur country. In the first half of the 12th century it was the seat of a branch of the Telugu Chodas. Its chiefs, Kama-Choda, Tribhuvanamalla Pottapi-Choda and Nanni-Choda, ruled under the Chola emperors, and one of them founded the Ballesvara temple there.

The Konidena Chodas

Robert Sewell’s chronicle (1932) lists a line of Telugu Choda chiefs of Konidena in the Guntur country:123

  • Kama-Choda-Maharaja, whose wife was Sriyadevi, ruling under the Chola Kulottunga II
  • their son Tribhuvanamalla Pottapi-Choda, ruling at Konidena
  • his son Nanni-Choda, who made a grant of land there123

Sewell describes the Konidena tract as lying south of the Krishna.123

The Nellore gazetteer of 1942 traced the line from a Dasavarman, about 1100, who boasted of conquering the Pakanadu.4 It named his successor Ballaya Choda as the founder of the Ballesvara temple at Konidena.4 It counted at least five generations and thought the line short-lived.4 After the middle of the 12th century, it says, the Kondapadumati chiefs followed them.4 See the Telugu Chodas of Pottapi and Nellore.

Footnotes

  1. Robert Sewell, The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (1932), p. 102 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Sewell, Historical Inscriptions (1932), p. 105 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Sewell, Historical Inscriptions (1932), pp. 107–108 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. W. E. Johns, Gazetteer of the Nellore District, brought up to 1938 (1942), p. 41 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

References

Sources (2)
  1. 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, 105, 107–108. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. W. E. Johns, Gazetteer of the Nellore District, brought up to 1938, Vol. A (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1942, pp. 41. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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