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² *H.A.S.*, No. 3, I. The Pālampēṭa pillar inscription of the time of Gaṇapatidēva, dated in Śaka 1135 (A.D. 1213), attributes the conquest of Kāñchī to a Kākati monarch, the campaign being directed by his general, Brahma of the Rēcherla family (v. 11). The Kākati monarch alluded to here is in fact no other than Bēta I. The relationship between Kāṭa, the father of Kāma Chamūpati, and Brahma, the first known member of the Rēcherla family, is not made clear in this inscription. Kāma is said to have been the chief officer of Kākati Prōla, the opponent of Manthena Guṇḍa. This Prōla is evidently Prōla II. Hence it is reasonable to suppose that the difference in time between Rēcherla Brahma and his descendant Kāma corresponds to that between Bēta I and Prōla II. However, the Pillalamarri record (*Corpus*, No. 41, pp. 114 ff.) of the Rēcherla chief Nāma says that Muchcha was the father of Kāṭa and that he was born in the family of Bamma, evidently Brahma, who ‘having taken away the gate of the city of Kāñchī uprooted the tree of the dignity (*māna*) of the Chōḍa king in the play of the terrific battle’ (*yaḥ Kāmchinagari-kavaṭa-haraṇam kṛtvā prachand-āhava-krīḍas-Chōḍa-narādhipasya kṛtavān māna-drum-ōnmūlanam*. Ibid., v. 4). Muchcha is in fact much earlier in time than Kāṭa. He was probably Brahma’s grandson or his brother’s son. These Rēcherla chiefs served the Kākatīyas, very loyally from the time of Brahma onwards. In order to understand correctly the comparative dates of the Rēcherla chiefs and their Kākatīya overlords the pedigrees given overleaf may be helpful to the reader.