Part 24 - Khanderaya (A.D. 1254)

Between A.D. 1182 and A.D. 1254 no record of the Cud-dapah Paliavas are available, and consequently little is known about them. Khanderaja of the paliavas was of solar race and in 1254 established a Pallavesvara shrine at Pushapagiri and made gifts to Vaidyanatha temple. He was a feudatory of Ahobalesvararaju. son of Allugiraju and lord of Mulikinadu alias Motatidesa. His queen Hachalamba was the daughter of king Allugi. His general senapati was Gandapendara Gangasenapati.

Thus, Khanderaya himself, a feudatory of Ahbolesvara had a subordinate Gangasenapati—probably Gangayasahini, the Kayastha feudatory of the Kakatiyas. How long Khanderaya’s rule lasted is not known. His contemporary on the Kakatiya throne was Ganapati, with whom he did not come into conflict. The relationship of Khanderaya to chiddana is not known. There intervened a gap of seventy years between the two rulers. Rajendra III of the Cholas, Nagadeva and Abhideva Mallideva of the Paliavas of Guntur and Nellore, Surngadhara II of the Yadhavas of Addanki and Manmasiddhi III and Allutikka of the Telugucholas were contemporaries of Khanderaya, though there survived no evidence of his contacts with them.