Kandur Nadu

Kandur is located in modern Wanaparthy district. In old days it is also called Kandurnadu or Kandurghana had about 1,000 villages in its jurisdiction and also called Kandur-1000 

Vaddavani-500 or Vaddemana-500 may be modern Nandi Vaddeman, formerly known as Vardhamaanapuram and Kodur in Nagarkurnool district is part of Kandurnadu for sometime.

In Kandurnadu Pangal, Kandur, Gangapur, Jadcherla are the marketing centers

Perur in Nalgonda is located in the ancient geographical division called Kandurnadu which corresponds to the modern taluks of Miriyalaguda and Devarakonda in Nalgonda , Suryapeta in Suryapet district, and Jadcherla, Mahabubnagar in Mahabubnagar district

Yapaniyas were active at Saundatti, Kalbhavi and Hannikeri all situated in Belgaum district, Karnataka

940 AD :  Prthivivarma built a Jain Temple to Kareya Gana of the Mailapa Anvaya
980 AD : Mahasamanta Santivarma a grandson of Prthivivarma built in 980 a second Jain temple at Sundatti and endowed it with a piece of land. The donation was received by the monk Bahubali Bhattaraka of the Kandur Ghana

753 CE – 973 CE : Rashtrakuta Dynasty

753 - 973 CE : The Ratta Dynasty

A branch of the Rashtrakutas ruling over Belagavi (modern Karnataka), administered parts of this region. They are believed to descend from Hem Ratti and spoke Kannada, with some using Telugu.

846 - 888 CE: Sankarganda I 

administered areas including Jaffarghad, Warangal, Kollipaka (includes Kandur)
25th September, 846 AD: Land grants at Mallikarjuna Palli, Medak.
888 CE: Jain inscription at Mettugutta hillock, Kazipet.

Many ruined Jain temples, shrines, and sculptures exist in Warangal, Hanmakonda, Kazipet, and Madikonda, reflecting the influence of Jainism. The Jain temple/shrine known as Jaina Basadi at Mettugutta was attributed to Mahamandaleshwarudu Shankaragandaras during the Rashtrakuta period.

907 CE : Ravi Chandrayya
1st April, 907 AD : Velmajala, Bhuvanagiri
Telugu and Kannada. This inscription is on a slab near ruined construction outside the village. The inscription refers to Akalavarsha (i.e. Krishna II) and records the gift of 100 marttars of land to a basadi; and a garden by Ravi Chandrayya, a subordinate of the king.

913 AD - 973 CE : Mahasamanta Nurmadidhavala Ayyanayyarasar
Chief : Gommarasa of Haihaya Chiefs

913 AD : Padaturu, Nalgonda, Nityavarsha (Indra III) 
This Kannada inscription, engraved on a pillar, set up in front of Ramalingesvarasvami temple, belongs to the reign of Rashtrakuta king Nityavarsha (i.e., Indra III). It refers to mahasamanta Nurmadidhavala and to his subordinate chief Gommarasa, who was administering Kollipaka nadu-7000 division. Dated Saka 835, Srimukha (A.D 913), it registers the grant of several lands along with income from tax siddhaya by Chamangamunda, son of Aydamayya, to the temple raised by the former. Aydamayya is stated to have been ruling over Padaturu.

Nurmadi Tailapa II claimed descent from the earlier Chalukyas of Vatapi (Badami), and initially ruled as a Rashtrakuta vassal from the Tardavadi-1000 province in the modern Bijapur district of Karnataka. When the Rashtrakuta power declined following an invasion by the Paramara king Siyaka, Tailapa overthrew the Rashtrakuta king Karka II, and established a new dynasty.

973 CE - 1163 CE : Western Chalukyas of Kalyani

1033 - 1045 CE : Kanduru Anemarasa  or Anemarasa I or Yanemarasa I

27th November A.D. 1033 & 15th July, A.D. 1038

Record from Mallesvaram Saka 955 and Saka 960 

Malleswaram, Kollapur Taluka : This inscription is on a stone in the Agastheswara Swamy temple. The grant was made on two different dates by a chief named Anemarasa of Kanduru who bears a string of epithets and feudatory of Jagadekamalla I. The inscription is important as it brings to light a new feudatory chief hitherto not known and contains the earliest mention of Kanduru, from which hailed the Telugu-Cholas of Kanduru. The first grant dated S 955 A.D. 1033, registers some gift of lands to Jagadindu Pandita, an ascetic, for imparting education (Vidyadana) and feeding ascetics (ahara). The second grant dated S.960 A.D, 1038, as also issued by the same chief i.e., Anemarasa from his nelevidu Pottalakere (Modern Patancheru in Medak District) in favour of the same ascetic. It also mentions another ascetic Chidisvara Pandita and the grant of the village Chimili on the banks of river Krishna.

Probably moved to Koduru (modern Nagarkurnool)

10th March 1054 AD : Tatiparthi

This inscription is on a stone pillar near the Bhairava temple. Incomplete. Records some grant as sravabadhaparihara by Kamarasa and Dadikoram barmayyar with the permission of Padiyaram Kuppayya in Koduru while mahamandalesvara Anemarasadeva was ruling over Koduru-300. Also mentions a certain Annam Bhimarasar.

1045 - 1050 CE: Sankaragandarasa

1049 AD : Kolanupaka, Yadadri Bhuvanagiri District.
The Kannada inscription, engraved on a pillar set up in front of the Anjaneyasvam temple in the village, belongs to the Kalyana chalukya king, Trailokyamalladeva. Being dated saka 971 A.D. 1049 ,it describes the eulogy of his chief Sankaragandarasa, who while camping at Kondur, made a grant of twelve mattars of land for the worship and food offerings to the deity Mahesvaradeva of Kondur for the purpose of giving alms and feeding the ascetics and Brahmanas on the occasion of kanya-samkranti.

1050 - 1077 CE: Haihaya Chiefs

1050 - 1065 CE : Kumara Vijayaaditya I younger son of Somesvara I 

Haihaya Chief: Ayyarasa

1051 AD : As per Mallesvaram in the Kollapur Inscription Saka 973,  Vijayaaditya I younger son of Somesvara I (1042 - 1068 AD) ruling Kandurnadu

1058 AD : Manthati : This inscription is on a hill called Bayyanagutta outside the village. Records the installation of God Bhairava in Wanaparthy by Attikabbe, wife of Mesavala Ketaya mantri, ankakara Sankaraganda of Kanduru. This is the earliest reference to modern Wanaparti. 

1058 CE - 1065 CE : Ayyarasa : An inscription found at Nagai dated 1058 AD, Ayyarasa of Haihaya family was ruling Kandurnadu under Somesvara I.

1077 CE - 1224 CE : Kandur Chodas

1077 - 1088 : Jayasimha  Younger brother of Vikramaditya VI

1079 AD : Jayasingadeva or Jayasimha Younger brother of Vikramaditya VI

There was a rebellion by the emperor's younger brother Jayasimha, the viceroy of Banavasi, around c.1080-1082 which was quelled and the rebel pardoned.

1081 CE– The inscription, which is incomplete, registers a grant made by Dona, the younger brother of Mahasamantadhipati Eremayya who was administering the Purigere-300, for the Jain cult in Purikara. The gift was entrusted to Narendrasena (II), of the Sena-gana in the Mula Sangh, the disciple of Nayasena Suri who in his turn was the disciple of Narendrasena (I). It is stated that at the time of the record the king‘s younger brother Yuvaraja (Jayasimha III) was governing the two Six–Hundreds (vis. Belvola-300 and Purigere–300), Banavasi –12000, Santalige-1000 and Kandur-1000.

1082 AD : Slab record into the wall of the backyard of the Taluk office – South Indian Inscriptions vol XX, no 55 – refers to the reign of the Western Chalukya king Tribhuvanamalla ( Vikramaditya VI ) – not dated, based upon tithi it corresponds to 1082 CE – The inscription registers a gift of land made by the five-hundred members headed by Santi-setti of Purigere, after purchasing it form the Brahmanas with the money which had accumulated with interest, granted, formerly to Talara Nagavaraman, a subordinate of Vavana-nripati, to Lakkana-setti, father of Santi-setti, For the benefit of drawing water by picotta (eat) from the well called Ratanada-bavi When Trailokyamalla Vira–Nolama-Pallava-permanadi-Jayasimhadeva was governing Purigere-300, Belvola–300, Banavasi-12000 and Kandur-1000. It refers to one Jayakeaief Sagara family as the subordinate of Jayasimha.

Bhimachoda II (1077 CE - 1091 CE)
the son of Tonda I. Ruled Kandurnadu 1100 from Panugallu (Nalgonda), Kodur (Mahabubnagar)
The major expansion of the dynasty came under Bhimachoda II

His reign coincided with a major civil war in the Chalukya empire. Bhimachoda II shrewdly backed Vikramaditya VI in his successful coup against his brother, King Somesvara II. As a reward for his crucial support, Vikramaditya VI granted Bhimachoda II the immensely wealthy and vast territory of Kandurunadu, comprising eleven hundred villages, as an additional fief. This transformed the Kanduri Chodas from local lords into major regional players. To mark this new status, Bhimachoda II adopted the proud titles "Kodurpuravaresvara" (Lord of the excellent city of Kodur) and "Kanduri-Choda".

Tonda II (1091 CE - 1097 CE)

Son of Bhimachoda II. Began ruling from Kolanupaka before his father's death.
He assumed full power at Panugallu in 1091 CE and oversaw the immersion of his father's ashes in the Ganga.

25th December, A.D. 1091 Thus in all we have four records of Tondaya-Chola maharaja, dates ranging from the Chalukya Vikrama years 12-16 (1088-92 A.D.).

1091 AD : An unpublished epigraph from Panugallu dated C.V. 15 set up by Bhima's eldest son Tondaya registers some vrittis granted by him to a brahman who carried the ashes of his father Kandūru Bhima Chōda to Ganga for immersing them in that holy river.

Kolanupaka
This damaged inscription refers to the reign of the Western Chalukya king Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya VI.  1076 - 1126 AD. The details of the date are missing. It introduces the king’s feudatory Mahamandalesvara Kondaya Choladevamaharaja, of the solar race and Karikala’s lineage, lord of the foremost town of Kolur, who was ruling the province of the Kollipake-Seven-Thousand.

States that while the Chalukya Emperor Vikramaditya-VI was ruling, his feudatory mahamandalesvara Kanduri Tondaya Chola Maharaja, Lord of Kodurupura administering authority over Kollipaka-7000, made a gift to the temple of the God Vishnu, towards the anga and ranga bhogas of the God. It also states that previously a gift was made, on S.954, Angirasa, Ashadha, ba:15, Monday, (A.D. 1032) to the God Mallinatha, by Jagadekamalladeva. The gift consisted of 20 tanks, in Anemargo, situated in Kollipaka-7000 as free from all encumbrances. There is another incomplete record on the same slab which contains the prasasti of Amanaverggade Nannapayya, who was the Mahamatya of Jagadekamalla

Kolanupaka, Bhuvanagiri
Tribhuvanamalla ruling from Kalyana
Records a gift of the village Rachervu in Kodada-12 for worship and offerings to god Vishnudeva by Tondayachodamaharaja of Kanduru, who was ruling over Kollipake-7000. The contents are repeated again in a verse at the end.

Udayachoda I, Bhimachoda III, Gokarnachoda I  are the sons of Tonda II.

Mallikarjunachoda (1097 CE - 1104 CE)
Ruled from Kodur (modern Nagarakurnool)
Brother of Tonda II. His reign is documented through grants made by his minister, Gunda.

Division and Fratricide: The Sons of Tonda II
The dynasty reached a critical juncture a generation later under the sons of Tonda II: Bhimachoda III and Gokarnachoda I, who ruled jointly from 1104 AD. Their reign became entangled in another Chalukya succession crisis. The Chalukya king's younger brother, Kumara Tailapa, held Kandurunadu as his appanage (yuvaraja-vritti) and sought to rebel against his elder brother, King Somesvara III.

Bhima Choda III (1104 CE - 1128 CE)
Ruled from Kodur (modern Nagarkurnool)
During his reign, the Kakatiyas under Prola II (1110–1158 CE) were rapidly rising, and Bhima Choda III would have had to balance relations with both.

Several inscriptions in Nalgonda–Suryapet–Kodur belt mention land grants to Brahmins and temples during his reign.

31st December, 1104 AD : Kolanupaka.
This inscription is on a stone slab in the fields. It states that, while Chalukya emperor Tribhuvanamalladeva was ruling the ever increasing prosperous kingdom from the nelevidu of Kalyana, Kanduru Bhimana Choda Maharaja of the lineage of Karikala Kasyapa-gotra granted lordship over Bhaditippaparti included in Cheraku-70 included in the Irrama-300, of Kanduru- 1100 bada, making it agrahara to Kavaliya Brahmadevayya. The inscription bears at the end signatures of (1) Kavaliya Brahmadevayya, (2) Rajadhyaksha Jogadevayya (3) Sarvadhyaksha Peggada Komanayya and (4) Peggada Irugamayya.

These records confirm that Kandur Bhima Choda III controlled Eruvanadu and Vaddeman-500 (Vaddavani-500) divisions.

1104  - 1149 CE : Kumara Tailapa 

the younger son of Vikramaditya VI was in possession of kandurnadu-1100 and Sindvadi-1000 with its capital at Tumbalam near Adoni and wanted to assert independence over kandurnadu  ruling from Kodur with his queen Lakshmi Devi and sons Permadi and Bikkideva

Panugallu

The record is partly damaged. Mentions Tailapa, the son of the emperor, and seems to record Sift to a brahmana, son of Vaidyanatha in Gokarna-brahmapuri, probably by Mahamandalesvara Bhima Choda who is said to have obtained the whole of Kanduru mandala as fief from Tailapa. Details not clear.

Panugallu
Damaged. Describes a subordinate officer, a Mahamandalesvara (name lost) who is said to have secured his office from the King's son Tailapadeva. Gokarna is also mentioned.

It seems that Tailapa distributed the governorship of Kandurunadu between two brothers of the Choda family, Bhima III (who held Kodur and Vardhamanapura) and Gokarna I (who held Panugallu). 

25th December, 1110 AD : Malleswaram
This inscription is on a stone in the Agastyesvara temple. Records the gift of the village Vrepakallu situated in baliya Sarimale-12, of Ettapi-Kampana-90, of Kanduru - 1100, as Sarvanamasya, (free from all encumbrances) by mahamandalesvara Kumara Tailapadeva to the Gods Agastyesvara and chandalesvara installed by him at the instance of his foster-mother Bagi Abbe.

4th August 1121 AD : Nekkonda, Mahaboobnagar District.

Language : Kannada
This inscription dated C.V.E. 46, Plava, Sravana, Amavasya Sunday. (A.D. 1121, Aug. 14). It begins with the prasasti of Kumara Tailapadeva, the king's son by Chandaladevi and states that he was ruling from Kodur with his queen Lakshmi Devi and sons Permadi and Bikkideva. It registers the gift of the village Bhudupura (in Kanduru-70, in Nurumbada of Kanduru-1000) for worship at and repairs to the temple of the god Ramesvara of Nekkondi and for feeding the ascetics.

1123 AD: Bothpur, Mahbubnagar

This inscription is dated C.V.E. (46), Plava, Sravana amavasya, Sunday. Records the achievements of Kumara Tailapa Son of Chandaladevi. He was ruling from his nelavidu at Koluru with his queen Lakshmadevi, sons Permadi Deva and Bikkadeva. It also registers the gifts of the village Badambudu situated in Kanduru 70, a nurumbada to the God Ramesvara of Nekkonda for the worship and offerings to the god and for the repairs of the temple and for feeding the ascetics residing there by Kumara Tailapa. The titles of the prince namely Vengisa vana dava dahana and Chola Kula kumudini martandi mentioned in the previous records occur in this inscription also.

1125 AD : A jaina inscription data 1125-26 AD refers itself to the reign of Chalukya King Bhulokamalla (Somesvara III). It informs that when prince Tailapa was ruling over Kandurunadu a certain merchant Bommisetti of the Virabalangi community , is said to have constructed a chaityalaya , the deity of which was Parsvanatha at Gangapur after washing the feet of Meghachandra Bhattara

Amanakallu-70, a part of Kandurnadu.

The region of Kandurunadu located south of the Kakatiya territory formed the yuvaraja-vritti or kumara-vritti (royal appanage) of Kumara Tailapa, the younger brother of the Chalukya king Somesvara III. It appears that Kumara Tailapa was active in the region even during the reign of his father, King Vikramaditya, as Tailapa's earliest inscriptions in Kandurunadu date to 1110 C.E. In addition to Kandurunadu, Kumara Tailapa also held the province of Sindavadi, with its capital at Tumbalam (near Adoni).

Prince Tailapa eventually sought to become independent of his elder brother. While Bhima agreed to fight for Tailapa, Gokarna I remained loyal to King Somesvara. As a result, it seems that Gokarna was killed by Kumara Tailapa and Bhima in 1128.

1128 AD - 1136 AD : Sridevi Tondaya was the son of Udayaditya I, elder brother of Gokarna and Bhima Chōda . 

1128 AD : Anamala, Miryalaguda Taluk.
Belonging to the same period are two epigraphs from Anamala in Miryalaguda Taluk. They belong to the Kanduri Choda family which paid allegiance to the Western Chalukyas of Kalyani. One of them, dated Saka 1050 (A.D. 1128), was issued by Sridevi Tondaya and is silent about the overlord, suggesting an independant status.

This inscription is on a stone pillar set up in the fields towards the west of the village. The inscription records that Mahamandalesvara Kanduri Sridevi Tondaya of Kasyapa-gotra, Karikalanvaya, and solar race, the lord of Kodurupura granted the prabhutva (lordship) of Alamula included in Cheraku-70 (region) with ashtabhogatejas-svamyatas to Ajjala Erayana- peggada. The record, on the other three sides contains Telugu verses in Kanda and one in Champakamala metres, stating that certain Prolemaraja-amarya obtained (from the king) vrittis consisting of Chagamari-12 and Dodidorti-12 and other things. The Champakamala verse states the various royal insignia obtained by Proleyamatya which include, adapamu (betel bag),andalamu (palanquin), (royal) seats kamchagattu (.............), vichchadiya (permission to pay royal visits?), dharalu (swords), savadi-samkhulu (sounding conch shells), bherulu (beating drums), gamgu-gondamu (......), godugulu (umbrellas), pili (elephant), barha-kunta (peacock- fans?) and kham-vitanamu (...).

The last verse states that Adapa-Erayan-peggade obtained the prabhutva (lordship) from Tondaraja of the line of Jata Choda. From this record we understand that the Choda family of Kanduru belonged to the line of Jata Choda of Eruva as said in the Vollala inscription of Mallikarjuna Choda (Ep. Andhrica IV p.26). Secondly, Sridevi Tondaya, the donor of this record is not properly identifiable among the known members of the Kanduri Choda chiefs. Thirdly, it is not known how Proleyaraja-amatya and Erayana peggada were related to each other.

1131 AD : Adavi-Devulapalli, Miryalaguda Taluk
This inscription is on a slab lying in front of the Chennakesava temple. Records the installation of the deity Ramaramana at the place called Bauddham situated on the bank of the river Krishna by mahamandalesvara Kandari Tondaya-chada, who is described as Koduri- puravaradhisvara and belonging to Kasyapa-gotra and Karikalanvaya. While he was ruling from his capital Panugallur over Kandara nadu Vinuribada-nadu and Kondapalli-nadu, his minister Gopati son of Medama granted two khandugas of hand and taxes (sunkas) for maintaining perpetual lamp to the above deity.

1136 AD : Prola II, at the behest of King Somesvara, invaded Kandurunadu to put an end to the rebellion. Prola attacked the general Govinda-damdesa, who had received Panugallu from Kumara Tailapa after Gokarna was killed. Upon defeating and killing Govinda-damdesa, Prola restored Panugallu to Udaya Choda, the son of Gokarna. Prola's campaign into Panugallu seems to have occurred sometime between 1128 and 1136.

1163 - 1323 CE : Kakatiya Dynasty

1136 AD - 1178 AD : Udayachoda II Son of Gokarnachoda I
Ruled the entire Kanduri Choda realm, which encompassed the territories of Panugallu, Kodur and Vardhamanapura.  Initially a subordinate of the Chalukyas, he eventually clashed directly with Kakatiya Rudradeva. After being defeated, Udayachoda II was forced to make peace by giving his daughter Padma in marriage to Rudradeva, formally accepting Kakatiya suzerainty.

1137 AD : Kakatiya Prola II Defeated Kumara Tailapa. Kumara Tailapa finally attempted to become independent sometime in A.D. 1137. The Rachūru inscription of A.D. 1137 refers to him as the sovereign king with Gangapura as his nelavidu

1149 AD: Tailapa-III or Kumara Tailapa was defeated by Kakatiya Prola II around 1149 CE

Gokarnachoda II (1178 CE to 1224 CE)
Ruled from Panugallu(Nalgonda)
Thereafter, the Kanduri Chodas were firmly under Kakatiya dominance. Udayachoda II's sons, Bhimachoda IV and Gokarnachoda II, ruled Kandur jointly from 1178 to 1224 CE as loyal vassals of the Kakatiya monarchs Rudradeva and Ganapatideva. Their inscriptions primarily record grants to temples and are issued firmly under the Kakatiya umbrella.

1224 CE - 1323 CE : Gona Chiefs

1219 AD - 1230 AD: Gona Ganapayya or Vithala son of Gona Buddha reddi I

1219 AD : Nagadevapalli, Nagarkurnool. 

This inscription is on a slab laying in front of Hanuman Temple. Very much damaged. It mentions the chief Gona Ganapayya who made a grant for the merit of his over lord Kakatiya
Ganapatideva and his father Buddireddi, who is described as Eruva gonga, Kodvaluri puravaradhisvara and vitaranotsaha.

1224 CE : Gona Ganapayya Son of Gona Budha Reddi obtained by the grace of Ganapatideva, the Kandur-nadu which he was ruling from Vardhamanapura.
The Significance of the 1224 CE Grant
The act of Kakatiya Emperor Ganapatideva granting Kandur-nadu to Gona Ganapayya in 1224 CE was not a simple appointment of a new minister. It was a formal transfer of sovereignty. This action:
Legally severed the Kanduri Chodas' rights to collect revenue and govern the land.
Made Gona Ganapayya the direct vassal of the Kakatiya emperor for that territory, effectively reducing the Kanduri Choda kings to local landlords residing in their old capitals.

Ganapayareddi and Immadi Visvanatha seemed to have been ruling over Kandurnadu region, spreading over Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda and Kurnool districts between themselves as Mahasmanthas under the Kakatiya kings.

16th January, A.D. 1229 : Vardhamanapuram
This inscription is dated from S. 1150, Sarvadhari, Magha ba. 12, Thursday (?) (A.D. 1229, Jan. 16). This introduces the king`s feudatory Ganapayya who was the son of Gona Buddhi reddi as ruling over Kanduru nadu from his headquarters at Vardhamanapura. Next it refers to setti and Vaidisetti of the town Kirti Narayanapura. Tumbula who constructed Temples for Sakalesvara, Virabhadra Deva and Somanatha and made gifts of income derived from tolls etc. A supplement records the gift made by certain Visvanathadeva for the merit of Mancharasa the Sunkadhikari of Ganapatideva Maharaja in Margasira Su. 1, Monday.

1230 AD - 1262 AD : Gona Budha Reddy II 

Budha dedicates Ranganatha Ramayanam to his father Vithala or Gona Ganapayya

Gona Buha Reddy had three sons and 1 daughter. Gona Ganna Reddy,  poets Gona Kacha Reddy, Gona Vitalanatha and Kuppambika. 

18th August, A.D. 1259. : Bothpur

The very beautiful celestial creeper of Kuppambika, born in the great milky ocean of the Gona dynasty, an eternal ornament to the forest of Malayala dynasty, (and one who was) honoured by the learned men (the gods), bears fruit along with him.

1253 AD : Immadi Reddy, was responsible for the eastern section of the doab where the Gadwal samasthan became established

A warrior local in the area named Pedda Veera Reddy ( also known as Budda Reddy ) assisted Immadi Reddy in land clearing

1262 AD  - 1294 CE : Gona Ganna Reddy son of Gona Budha Reddy II

Wife : Annamambika Devi, considered to be one of the best friends of Rani Rudrama.

Gona Ganna Reddy had two brothers and one sister. They were the poets Gona Kacha Reddy, Gona Vitalanatha and Kuppambika. 

Gona Kacha Reddy and Vitalanatha's contributions include the completion of the Uttarakaanda section in the Ranganatha Ramayanam. Ranganatha's version was the first and foremost Ramayanam written in Telugu literary history by Gona Budda Reddy. 

His sister, Kuppambika is known to be the first Telugu woman poet as per Buddapuram inscriptions. Kuppambika married Malyala Gundadandadeeshudu, who was also known as Danda Senani.

Gona Ganna Reddy married the love of his life Annaambika, best friend of Rudramadevi. A 400-page Kakatiya historical novel was written by Adavi Baapiraju in 1946.

1276 AD : Malyala Gundanna
Malyala Gundanna constructed several lakes with the help of his brother-in-law Gona Ganna Reddy and died in 1276 AD at the time of Rudrama Devi's rule.

1294  - 1323 CE : Vithala son of Gona Ganna Reddy

Gona Ganna's chief minister was Vithala, his own brother. Vithala is described as the rajyarakshamani, the jewel amulet of his kingdom, protector of people, aware of his duties, possessor of good qualities and the ruler of the kingdom of Raichur. The third Kakatiya offensive was directed against the Seuna Yadavas, who were also allies of Ambadeva. 

The main participant in this offensive seems to have been Gona Vithala, a Kakatiya subordinate who was ruling at Vardhamanapur in southwest Telangana. Gona Vithala captured the forts of Adavani and Tumbalam in the modern-day Bellary district, as well as Manuva and Hanuva in the Raichur doab. He then proceeded to capture the town of Raichur itself, where a fort was erected. Thus, the Seuna Yadavas had lost control over their southernmost territories in the Krishna-Tungabhadra basin. The Kakatiya invasion of this region seems to have occurred around 1294, the date of Gona Vithala's inscription describing his military achievements.

Cherkau Chiefs Jammuluru Branch (Wanaparthy)

Cheraku Immadi Bollayya Reddy (1199 CE -1253 CE)
The most famous Cheraku ruler. He served three Kakatiya monarchs: Rudradeva, Mahadeva, and Ganapatideva. He was a key ally of General Recharla Rudra during crises and was rewarded with the Amarabad and Velpur regions. A great patron, he built several temples (Koteswara, Mareswara, etc.), excavated tanks, established agraharas, and was titled Kakatiya-Kanaka-prakara ("the golden fort-wall of the Kakatiyas").

Ganapathi (1253 CE - 1271 CE)

son of Bolla

1271 - 1282 CE : Kanduri Ramanathadeva Choda 

Lord of Kodurapura
8th January, 1276 CE : Pamapur, Wanaparthy Taluk - Inscription is at Ponnamuchu Ramanatha Temple. It records certain persons namely Pannamkara Ganapayya, Namaya and Ramaya granted one kha of land on the north east side of the village towards anga ranga bhogas of the God Ramanathadeva at Ponnamuchu village. For the merit of their lord Rayideva. The scribe's name was given at the end of the inscriptionas Suraya also mentions vrithikadu (Probably a tenant) Appaya.