Part 6 - Ganapaya and Dora III (A.D. 1230-1257)

Ganapaya’s independant rule began in A.D. 1230 i.e. the last date for Pota II. But nothing is heard of him till A.D. 1240. His associate ruler in A.D. 1240 was Chagi Dorayaraju, whose relationship to Ganapaya is not known. An inscription of that year at Chintapalle records a gift for the merit of Doraya and Gonapaya. Manmaraju figuring in a record at Adaviravulapadu. was probably the son of Pota II and grandson of Dora alias Tyagi and so named Chagi Manma after him. He was the nephew of Ganapaya and probably the crown prince. Three epigraphs dated A.D. 1246 at Tnpurantakam show the expansion of the Chagi kingdom m. that direction. They were issued by Ganapaya, Muppaladevk Ammangaru and Doraya respectively.

Their Political Relations

The Chagis must have come into conflict with the Kakatiyas and their subordinates in extending their kingdom especially in the direction of Tripurantakam by A.D. 1246. Inscriptions of Ganapati are already at Tripurantakam by A.D. 1245,those of his brother-in-law Natavadi Rudra and his sons by A.D 1248. and of his subordinate Gangayasatini by A.D. 1250, perhaps the Chagis met the Kakatiyas and their subordinates as friends at Tripurantakam.

The Hast years of Ganapaya and Dora

Chagi Manmaraju of the Muppalla inscription dated A D. 1246 is identical with Chagi Manma of the record of A D. 1242 noted already and of the Tripurantakam inscription of A.D. 1230. Muppala manaidevi, mother of Ganpaya bearing the epithet Mahamandalesvara is heard of from a Berswada inscription dated A.D 1246. Ganapaya’s last inscription is from Yenamalakiduru dated A.D. 1250. No inscriptions of either Dora, Ganapati, Muppala, and Chagi Manma are available between the years A.D. 1250 and 1257, the earliest date for the next set of joint rulers and also the last date for Dora and Ganapaya. One feature of this period is the issuing of grants by four persons—all bearing regal epithets throughout side by side.