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The Reddi kingdom or Kondavidu Reddi kingdom existed from 1325 to 1448 CE in southern India. Most of the region that was ruled by the kingdom is now part of modern-day central Andhra and Rayalaseema. [2] [3] It was established by Prolaya Vema Reddi in 1325.
Several individuals—Prolaya Vema Reddi, Musunuri Prolaya nayaka, and Arviti Somadeva liberated these parts and they had no political connection with each other. Modern historian Cynthia Talbot has warned against taking the inscriptional evidence at face value.
The Kakatiya prince Prola I (c. 1052 to 1076) was referred to as "Prola Reddi" in an inscription. [26] [27] After the Kakatiyas became independent rulers in their own right, various subordinate chiefs under their rule are known to have used the title Reddi. [28] Reddy chiefs were appointed as generals and soldiers under the Kakatiyas.
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According to some other historians it was built in 1360 CE by Anna Vema Reddy [8] after he captured Kondapalli from Mudigonda Chalukyas, the fort has been home to several dynasties, from the Reddi rulers [9] [10] Gajapati dynasty to the Nizam Nawabs, and then the East India Company.
Little is known of the Musunuri family; they are often described as "obscure". [2] [3] The founding ruler of the family, Musunuri Prolaya Nayaka not to be confused with prolaya vema reddi a contemporary ruler from reddi dynasty, suddenly appears as a new ruler at Rekapalle, near Bhadrachalam, around 1330. [4]
The founder of the dynasty was Prolaya Vema Reddy, the son of Prola. [8] [10] They ruled in the region around present-day Vijayawada and Guntur towns for nearly a hundred years (1328–1428). Their first ruler Prolaya Vema Reddy (followed by five other rulers till 1428) who ruled till 1353, strengthened the defenses of his kingdom by building a ...
Yarrapragada or Erranna was a Telugu poet in the court of King Prolaya Vema Reddy (1325–1353). The surname of Erranna was Yerrapragada or Yerrana, which are epithets of the fair-skinned Lord Skanda in the Telugu language, but became attached to his paternal family due its having notable members with fair or red-skinned complexions.