The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.112

c8.112

About this time the ‘Rēnāṇḍu 7000’ country (i.e., the districts of Cuddapah and Kurnool) was ruled by a family of Telugu Chōḍa chiefs (See General Tables s: v. Chōḷa). They claimed descent from Karikāla Chōḷa, and used the tiger-seal of that house. The date rests on the assumption that a chief of the third known generation, Mahēndra, was named after the Pallava king Mahēndravarman I. The late V. Venkayya held that this family may represent the ‘Chu-li-ye’ chiefs described in A.D. 639 by the Chinese traveller Hiuen-Thsang. (Ep. Rep. 1904-5, p. 48.)