Kota Vamsa
Kota Vamsa is the medieval dynasty which ruled in parts of the modern-day Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The Kota prasisti (Praise; a short laudatory hymn: a eulogium) declared that they were the rulers of the Shatashasra (Guntur region on the southern banks of the Krishna River) and the Velanadu (a.k.a. Aarvelanadu) country as a de facto independent power for many centuries from the beginning of the 9th to12th century AD.
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Rulers
Some historians mention that Dhanunjaya gotra of the Kotas might have come from there ancestor, Prince Dhananjaya who ruled Madhyadesa (Middle India).[1]
Much information about the initial Kota Kings is not exactly known, Kota Hariseema Krishna was said to be the founder of the Kota dynasty.
Dharanikota
- Ganna Bhupala Dantuluri was ruling a tract about Dharanikota about 1400 A.D. was of Kota lineage.[2]
Culture
Kota Kings practice religious tolerance and patronised both Jainism and Hinduism. They favored Shaivism and their family god was Amareswara of Amaravati. They built several Hindu temples during their reign. Kota Kings followed the varna system.
References
- ↑ The History of Andhras, Durga Prasad
- ↑ M Somasekhara Sarma, Mallampalli Sōmaśēkharaśarma (1948). History of the Reddi Kingdoms (circa. 1325 A.D. to Circa 1448 A.D.). Andhra University. pp. 271, 24.