What is attested
The Pottapi line held territory in the Rayalaseema uplands, serving in turn the imperial Cholas, the Kākatīyas and Vijayanagara. From it descended the Nellore Choda branch, which became the more prominent of the two.
Their inscriptions record temple endowments and village grants in Telugu and Tamil, the two languages meeting in this border country. As with the other Choda lines, the surviving material is administrative rather than narrative, and no history of events can be written from it.
The branch was absorbed into the Vijayanagara system in the fourteenth century, its chiefs becoming nāyakas in the empire's service — the standard fate of the Deccan's minor dynasties after 1336.
Further reading
- Kulke, Hermann. A History of India. Routledge, 2004
- Fritz, John M. Hampi Vijayanagara. Jaico, 2003
- Hawley, John Stratton. A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. Harvard University Press, 2015
- Nilakanta Sastri, K. A. The Colas. University of Madras, 1955
- Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A History of South India. Oxford University Press, 1955
See also
This entry was last revised on 1 August 2026.