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Then the country passed under the sway of the Narapati king of Anegondi. Pratapadevarǎya, says the Kaifiyat, ruled for 7 years and Harihara for 17 years, both 24 years between ś. 1354 and 1376.
III. Now we enter into a more reliable account. The Narapatis were expelled by the Gajapati king Kapileśvara in ś. 1377 (A.D. 1454) and he ruled for 7 years upto ś. 1383. He was succeeded by his valient son Purushottama Gajapati who subdued many countriesincluding the kingdom of Narasimhadevarāya of Vijayanagara and ruled upto ś. 1418 (A. D. 1496). Purushottama was very much liked by the people. His son Pratǎparudra Gajapati succeeded to the throne in A. D. 1497 who placed his son Virabhadra Gajapati in charge of Kondavidu-rǎjya with Kondavidu fort as his capital. During his reign the Vijayanagara Emperor, Krishnadevarǎya invaded the country and seized in a single campaign the forts of Udayagiri, Addanki, Vinukonda, Bellamkonda, Nāgarjunakonda, Tangeda, Ketavaram and other forts. He then advanced upon the fort of Kondavidu in ś. 1437 (A D. 1515) and captured it by scaling the walls. He captured Virabhadra Gajapati, son of Prātaparudra Gajapati along with his nobles and commanders alive and took possession of the fort. He gave Virabhadra and his followers an assurance of security. Krishnarāya subjugated the country as far as Simhādri. Returning to Kondavidu, he conferred its governorship upon Nadendla Gopanna- mantri, a nephew of śaluva Timmarasa and went to Vijayanagara.
Thus the Gajapati rule at Kondavidu came to an end in A. D. 1515.
Having annexed the Kondavidu-rājya to the Vijayanagara empire, Krishnadevarāya appointed Nadendla Gopanna as its Governor. This minister is stated to have built the temple of Pattabhirāma svāmi at Kondavidu in śaka 1443, Vrisha (A.D. 1521). Krishnadevarāya, as the Kaifiyat says, was succeeded by Achyutarāya in A.D.1534 (The latter was coronated actually in A. D. 1530, but this record seems to take into consideration the appointment of his Governor in A. D. 1534, ignoring the change of the emperors). Achyutarāya, the Kaifiyat states, appointed Rāmaya Bhāskara as the Governor of Kondavidu, who built a fort called Māvulakoṭa at the foot of the hill fort on the west with the material of the ruined palaces and temples of the time of the Reddis. He also built within the fort a town and a beautiful shrine dedicated to the God Gopinātha. At that time the seventy-two pālegars who held the district, rose up in rebellion and created much confusion in defiance of the government. Rāmaya Bhāskara is said to have killed all the rebellious pālegars by throwing them in a secret well which he dug for the purpose in the premises of the Gopinatha temple. Having thus restored peace in the country Rayana Bhaskara named the new town Gopinathapura after the deity. He also con-structed temples for Navanita Krishna, Mulasthāneśvara and Angadi
