Two feudatory houses of the northern upland that serve the Kakatiyas as hard-bargained nayakas: Polavasa (the Jagtial country; Jain families, the 1123 inscription) and the Chagi chiefs of whom we have no source.
They show how a Telingana king rules: by marriage claims, refused daughters and forced obedience, then respect for the chief's seat.
Who he is
- Name
- Meda II of Polavasa under Rudradeva; no chief named for 1200
- Title
- Chiefs (nayakas) of Polavasa and Chagi
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- Polavasa: an old Jain-tinged house whose ancestor Madhavavarman is celebrated in the 1123 Govindapuram inscription; Chagi: not described in what we read
- Confidence
- low
Wikipedia's Rudradeva and Kakatiya articles (read): Rudra subdued Meda II of Polavasa and took his wealth; a fragmentary inscription says Meda refused to give his daughter. Polavasa remained a Kakatiya feudatory family. Chagi chiefs are named in our assignment; nothing we read describes them.
What it holds
- Polavasa near Jagtial (exact place not in the gazetteer)
Allies and rivals
Subdued by Rudradeva; Kakatiya feudatory.
How things stand that morning
Loyal by compulsion.
Where the sources disagree
- Not on the campaign board.
Evidence: Wikipedia's Rudradeva and Kakatiya articles (read); Chagi: no source read.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
Primary sources for Kakatiya kingdom (Orugallu)
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Various (Kakatiya chancery and temple scribes), edited by P. Sreenivasachar (inscriptions of the 10th to 15th centuries; edited 1940 to 1942). The Kakatiyas of Orugallu (Warangal) are known for 1200 almost entirely from inscriptions, and this Hyderabad Archaeological Series corpus is the main printed collection. Read online
- Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions relating to the Yadava Kings of Devagiri, Various (Yadava chancery), edited by J. F. Fleet (inscriptions of the 12th and 13th centuries; edited 1876). The first collected edition of the Yadava (Seuna) records, with texts and translations, from the Indian Antiquary. Read online
- South Indian Inscriptions (Archaeological Survey of India), Various (Chola, Pandya and other chanceries and temple scribes), edited by E. Hultzsch, V. Venkayya, H. Krishna Sastri and successors (inscriptions of the 7th to 17th centuries; the series ran from 1890). The temple inscriptions printed here are the primary record of the Tamil country in 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.