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THE HAIHAYAS
Kona-Manma-Malla
7. This family of chiefs who ruled over portions of the Godavari district
called Kōna-maṇḍala as subordinates to the Eastern Chāḷukyas, is represented
by a copper-plate inscription (C. P. No. 4)
of Kōna Manma-Malla, dated in Saka 1140, which secured from Kandikuppa
In the Amalapuram taluk of the East Godavari district. It is important as
being the only copper-plate grant of the family known 30 far. The genealogy
of the chief is traced from Rājaparēṇḍu, ‘the hero of many battles’. In this
genealogy, Manma-Malla is said to have had an elder brother by name Bēta
or Manma-Bēta who is omitted in the table given in para.58 of the Epigraphical
Report for 1932-33, wherein, however, his younger brother Sūrya is noticed, while
he is omitted in the present grant. It records the endowment by the chief, of the
village Kandikuppa separated from Pallamakurti in Guddeśa-Vishaya to the
temple of Chōḍēśvara Mahādēva evidently in the same village for the merit of
the donor’s father. This grant has been published in Bhārati for June 1938
(pp. 555 ff.).
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