Part 21 - Mallideva IV

To Malla or Mallideva entitled Jagatapi implying his conquest of Gutti, the younger brother of M P.C. Siddhi, were born Tondiya, Opilisiddhi and Mallideva. Just as Mallideva was born to Pottapi Somisvara, this Mallideva was born to Opilisddhi. Mallideva bore the epithets—Pottapi chodavasasekhara, of solar race and destroyer of enemies. Like his ancestors, he is said to have ruled the world with capital at Pottapi. To him by queen Gannidevi, as a result of their penances was born Opilisiddhi. Mahamandalesvara Kirtiraja Mallideva C.M. figuring in the Vipparla record dated A.D. 1199 was different from Mallideva IV though contemporaneous with him. Similarly Malli deva IV cannot be identified with Mallideva of Peddacherukur record, who was the son of Nanni choda and whose ancestry differs widely from that of Mallideva IV.

His Political Relations

Mallideva ruled in the latter part of the 12th century A D. His contemporaries among the cholas of Nellore were M.P.C. Siddhi I (1175-1192 A.D.), and Nallasiddhi I (A.D. 1187-1214) Nallasiddhi claim to have been ruling Cuddapah tracts with capital at Vallur and levied tribute from Mandri by A.D. 1192. Probably Mallideva owed allegiance to the Nellore cholas.