Part 21 - Other Kotas

From a record ot Kunkalagunka A.D. 1275, a kakaliya Rudraraju is heard of. He was probably the grandson of Rudra of the main branch of the Kotas of Dhanyakatak. An inscription at Srikakulam-undated mentions Pochaladevammavaru, the wife of Mahamandalesvara Kota Manma Gampaddeva rajulu who bore the usual Kota prasasti beginning with Swasti chatassamudra mudrita etc. Perhaps this Manma Ganapati is a grandson of Kota Ganapati, son of Keta III of the main branch of the Kotas.

A Kota Permadiraya is heard of from a record at Raichur. A Kota Gundaraja is known from an undated inscription at Ramalapadu. Perhaps he is identical with Kota Gandharaja of Mack. Mas. Besides the local rulers mention that Kota Ketaraja and Bhima were ruling at Dharamkota under Kakatiya suzerainty, till the time of Prataparudra in A.D. 1320. But from inscriptions, we know that Keta and Bhima of the main line ruled at a much earlier date and no Kotas were heard of so late as 1318 and 1320, unless this keta and Bhima were some local princes of the Kota lineage exercising local sway under Prataparudra’s suzerainty. But the Kota kingdom as such come under the Kakatiyas at a much earlier date than the reign of Prataparudra.

Dantuluri Gannabhupala ruling the tracts about Dharanikota about A.D 1400 was of Kota lineage. He is disembedas the lord of Dhanyavatipura and Krishnavannajala Kridavinoda. None of his records are available. His descent is clear from Murtitrayopakhyanam dedicated to him and Liya Reddi inscriptions. Among his ancestors figure Kota Kataraja II and Harikrishna Ganna’s daughter was Suramba the queen of Pedako. Wativema Reddi of the Reddis of Kondevidu. Obviously Ganna must have recognised Reddi suzerainty. The Kotas of Dhanamjaya Gotra appear as the second among the four important branches of Kshatriyas in Telugu land, even to this day. The lords of Kota appear among the feudatories of Rachiraju Tammaraju of the Pusapatis in the 17th Century A.D. Their names are not known