A divided inheritance
The Reddy kingdom split at the end of the fourteenth century into a southern branch at Kondavidu and a northern one at Rajahmundry on the Godāvarī. The two were often at odds, which weakened both against the Gajapatis pressing down the coast from Odisha.
Rajahmundry's rulers, Kumāragiri and then Kātaya Vema, allied with Vijayanagara against the Bahmanis and the Velamas, and their court continued the family's literary patronage — Śrīnātha spent time there as well.
The kingdom fell to the Gajapatis in 1448, twenty-four years after Kondavidu, and the Andhra coast became a battleground between Odisha and Vijayanagara until Kṛṣṇadevarāya's campaigns in the 1510s settled it.
Further reading
- Fritz, John M. Hampi Vijayanagara. Jaico, 2003
- Stein, Burton. Vijayanagara. Cambridge University Press, 1989
- Basham, A. L. The Wonder That Was India. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954
- Kulke, Hermann. A History of India. Routledge, 2004
- Asher, Catherine B. India Before Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2006
See also
This entry was last revised on 1 August 2026.