Durjaya Dynasty

c.500 - c.616 CE : Durjaya Dynasty
Founder : Rana Durjaya was a descendant of Karikala, the great Chola monarch who started as vassals to Vishnukundins. 

Capital : Pistapura (Identified as modern Pithapuram)

The Durjayas were a brach of early cholas.The Garvapadu grant of Ganapati states that Ranadurjaya, the founder of Durjaya dynasty, was a descendant of Karikala, the great Chola Monarch.

Many ruling dynasties in Andhra and Telangana, such as the Kakatiyas , Malyalas, Viryalas, the Konakandravadis, the Ivani Kandravadis, the Kondapadumatis, the Paricchedis and the Chagis, are claimed to be his descendants.

c. 500 : Maharaja Ranadurjaya

c. 500 CE: Maharaja Ranadurjaya, the foundational ruler of the Sriramaka-Kasyapa family, likely served as a contemporary and subordinate of Vishnukundin Madhavavarman II (456–503 CE) during the early part of his career. The Tandivada grant reveals his eventual rise to power at Pishtapura, where he established himself as a paramount king by displacing the Vashistha dynasty. This transition occurred after the reign of the Vashistha king Anantavarman, who had previously issued the Srungavarapukota inscription from the same "Victorious City" of Pishtapura.

Vikramendra (c.540 - 567 CE)

c. 555 CE: Vikrama-Mahendra fought with Indra Bhattaraka Varma (Indra Varma II) (c. 528–555 CE)

567  - 617 CE : Prithvi Maharaja ruled over a vast kingdom extending from Jajpur (Vaitarani) to the river Godavari in the south. 

Prithvimula of Durjaya,  gave his daughter Parama Bhattarika to Govinda Varma.
589 CE : In his 27th year he extended his sway unto the river vaitarani in the north defeating the eastern Ganga, Sailodbhava and the Mudgals kings.

586 CE : Tandivada Grant of Prithivi Maharaja - 46th Year - The object of the record is to register a grant of the agrahara village Tandivada in Pagupara-vishaya made from Pishtapura by Prithivi-Maharaja of the Kasyapa-gotra who bore the biruda Srirama, son of Vikramendra and grandson of Maharaja Ranadurjjaya, to Bhavasarman of the Kamakayana-gotra, who was the son of Prithivivarman and grandson of Vishnuvarman and was a resident of Kondamanchi, on the full-moon day of Karttika in the 46th year of his reign. About this time he also defeated the sailodbhava king Ayososbhita of Kongada, the father of Madhavaraja II.

616 CE (Maruturu Grant): Issued from a "Victorious Camp." This shows Pulakeshin II was still personally in the field in the East five years later. It commemorates the final reduction of any remaining resistance in the Pishtapura and Guntur areas.

C. 616 CE  may be approximately fixed as the date of Badami Chalukyas (543 AD - 753 AD) Pulakesin II's victory over Prithvimaharaja. We get a reference to the horrors of the battle evidently fought between Pulakesin II and Prithvi Maharaja on the bank of the Kunala or the Kolleru on the left bank of which stood the fortress of Pistapura.

In 49th year he issued the paralakhimedi plates from his military camp at Viranja-Nagara modern Jajpur for Cuttack district. 

It seems that in his 50th regnal year (612 CE) he was defeated and killed by Sasanka in battle near Viraja. 

Budharaja, a successor of Prithvi Maharaja, ruled under Kubja Vishnuvardhana

After their defeat at the hands of Sasanka the Durjayas fled away to Pistapura and took shelter under Pulakesin II. Pulakesin II allowed his younger brother, Kubja Vishnuvardhana to rule Pistapura. This Kubja Vishnuvardhana founded the famous line of the Eastern Chalukyan dynasty in the Vengi region.