The forest and hill country along the Godavari gorge from Mulugu and the Pakhal valley past Bhadrachalam to the Papikondalu: Koya clans of hill cultivators and hunters, with a Kakatiya claim on the west and the Velanati and Ganga marches on the east.
The Kakatiya tanks at Pakhal and Laknavaram are on its edge (later).
Who holds it
- Title
- Koya clan chiefs; no names known
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The Kakatiya inscriptions treat the Koya forest as a frontier; no chief is named for 1200.
Overlord
Kakatiya claim
How things stand that morning
Self-governing clans on the Kakatiya edge. East of the Godavari and the Indravati the same forest runs on into Bastar, which is nin's ground (Dantewada is anchored here as peoples).
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No source we read gives the political life of this people in 1200; this is general knowledge, flagged thin. The Project's rule is that powers who ruled without castles are real powers, so the people is carried.
Sources and studies
- General knowledge of the medieval Deccan (Bhandarkar, Altekar, Sastri, B. R. Gopal, Suryanath Kamath): from memory, not re-read
- OMNIA board notes for this place (a lead only, checked against the sources above)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.