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The history of Kasturi Rangappa Naidu is nothing but a record of a few military incidents of his time. The first is his success against the Muhammadan Chief of Golconda. Next he compelled the chiefs of Kondavedu and Venukonda to retreat to Kocherlakota. Then his defeat of Thimmana Gandu a notorious rebel of the days of Krishna Deva Rai. When he once rose in revolt, he was made to succumb. The description goes that Rangappa Naidu met him in a valley called Kotakanuma, and in an engagement killed as many as 26,000 warriors, made the rebel a fugitive, and compelled him thenceforward to pay tribute for which act the hero was granted a taluk known as Orwaseema.

But the most remarkable incident is the conflict with Thimma Raju of Matla Varu