Part 7 - Manma Pota and Manma Ganpaya (A.D. 1257-1268)

Inscriptions do not tell us the relationship between Manmapota and Manmaganapati and their relationship to their predecessors Dora and Ganapaya whom they succeeded on the throne. But the term Manma in their names shows that they were the grandsons of Pota II and Ganapaya through either sons Manmachogi and perhaps Dora respectively.

Manma Pota’s earliest inscription is from Muppalla dated A.D. 1257 mentioning his generals—Komma and his son Manka. A Manmachagiraju is mentioned in another inscription of the same year from Kondanayanivaram Mahamandalesvara Tyagi manma Ganapatidevaraja is first heard of in A.D. 1259 from an inscription at Vedadri. The next inscription is from Anumanchipalli of A.D. 1260 mentioning a grant by Ganapaya. This mentions Manma Chagi Ganapati, as the son of Ganapati and Vennambika, which Ganapati was the son of Dora by Mnppama. Pota is mentioned as the ruler of Natavadi kingdom.

The extent of the kingdom retained its usual dimensions. On the Kakatiya throne was Rudrama in this period. Records of her and her subordinates are at Tripurantakam and in Palnad tracts. There is no evidence whether the chagis came into conflict with them.