Tribhuvanamalla ascended the throne in 1100. He was succeeded by his son Prolaraja or Prodaraja whose accession may be roughly fixed by the same method of computation in 1130. In any case he was reigning about 11 50. He married a lady named Muppaladevi and seems to have been both warlike and powerful. He captured but released Nurmadi-Tailapadeva III, the Chalukya Raja of Kaliani, who seems to have been his overlord, and defeated a king Govinda whose kingdom, which cannot be identified, he gave to one Udaya ; conquered Gunda, ruler of the city of Mantrakuta, which has not been identified, and repulsed an attack made on Hanamkonda by Tribhuvanamalla-Jagaddeva, raja of Patti Pombuchchapura, now Humcha in the Nagar district of Mysore, who was, like his foe, a vassal of the Chalukya rajas of Kaliani. Tradition ascribes the foundation of Warangal to Prolaraja.
Prolaraja was succeeded, probably about 1162, by his son Prataparudradeva I, who built the temple of the thousand pillars at Hanamkonda and from whose long inscription therein all of this information concerning the Kakatiyas is gathered. He conquered Domma, who cannot be identified, and Mailigideva or Mallugi, the sixteenth king of the Yadava dynasty of Seunadesha, the district which lay between Nasik and Deogir, the modern Daulatabad. He also conquered the country of Polavasa, which has not been identified, and repulsed a king named Bhima, who had seized part of the Chola and Chalukya dominions after establishing himself by the murder of a king named Gokarna. Prataparudradeva I was succeeded by Mahadeva, who was probably his son, but neither the length of his reign nor of that of Prataparudradeva can be ascertained at present. Mahadeva was succeeded in 1223 by his son, Ganapati, who defeated the Yadava raja Singhana, who reigned in Seunadesha from 1210 to 1247. There is some difference of opinion regarding the date of Ganapati's death, which is variously placed in 1257 and 1261, by which time he had begun the building of the inner or stone wall of Warangal. No son survived him and he was succeeded by his widow Rudrammadevi, who completed the stone wall of Warangal and surrounded the city by an outer wall of earth. She is said to have reigned for 38 years and was reigning when Marco Polo*[1]
- ↑ * Marco Polo extols her as a wise and well beloved queen, who remained a widow for her husband's sake and ruled his kingdom well.
