Kandakura

Kandakura, the Kandukuru of coastal Andhra, was associated with a southern branch of the Reddi ruling houses. Their power emerged after the fall of the Kakatiya kingdom in the fourteenth century. Malla Reddi, younger brother of Prolaya Vema Reddi, helped establish the family's position and is believed to have received responsibility for the southern province around Kandukuru.

The local branch retained its own place in the political geography of Andhra. Its records referred to Addanki rather than Kondavidu, and inscriptions at Kandukuru dated to Saka 1320, or 1398, preserve evidence for the ruling family. Related records from nearby Kondamudusupalem extend that epigraphic history into 1400. These inscriptions connect the town with the fortunes of a regional dynasty rather than merely with changes imposed from distant capitals. The history of the Kandukuru Reddis survives unevenly, but the dated stones establish a specific late-fourteenth-century centre within the larger network of Telugu chiefs, family branches and competing kingdoms.