Pottapi

Pottapi lies in southern Andhra near the Cheyyeru River. It was an early seat of the Telugu Choda chiefs, who established themselves here around the eleventh century and took the name Pottapi Chola. An inscriptional tradition attributes the town's founding to Madhurantaka Pottapi Chola, an ancestor of the family. Pottapi remained a local headquarters under successive dynasties for centuries, long after the rise of the chiefs who bore its name.