The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c15.s2.t5.61.2

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Juṭṭaya-leṅka Goṅkā Reḍḍi is a compound word consisting of two names, Juṭṭaya-leṅka and Goṅkā Reḍḍi, signifying that the persons whose names are thus joined together are related to each other as father and son respectively, and obviously Goṅkā Reḍḍi could not have been the son both of Juṭṭaya-leṅka and of Pratāparudra. The truth of the matter is that Gonka Reḍḍi, like his father Juṭṭaya and his younger brother Rudraya, who is mentioned in an epigraph at Chanduvāyi in the Siddhavatam *tāluk* of the Cuddapah district,¹ was a member of the order of the *leṅkas*; and by custom, like all the other persons belonging to this brotherhood, he is referred to in the inscription as a son of the king. The historian Firishta introduces a son of Pratāparudra called Kishan Nāyak, who headed a rebellion against the Musalmāns in Teliṅgāṇa in 1336 A.D., and having expelled them made himself master of the country.² The name Kishan is the result of a scribal error. In actual fact, there never was any person bearing the name of Kishan Nāyak who played any such part at that time as is attributed to him by Firishta. On a careful examination of the text of available manuscripts of Firishta and a comparison of these with the accounts found in other Muslim histories, the real name of the author of the rebellion against the Musalmāns in A.D. 1336 is found to have been Kāpaya Nāyaka;