Origin
- According to Ramavilas by Telugu Lakshmana Kavi, the Chagi’s are Kshatriyas and their ancestry is as follows:
Brahma was born from the navel lotus of Vishnu and from him was born Mariachi. Marichi’s son was Kashyapa and his son was Bhaskara. Bhaskara’s son was Vaivasvata, whose son was Manu and Manus’s son was Ikshavaku. In Ikshavakavamsa as born Kakutsa, Raghu and Dasaratha. Dasaratha’s son was Rama of Suryavamsa, through them, Sagivamsa arose and became famous with great warriors and saints like Nagarjuna.
- Chagi Venkana was believed to be the first of the Chagis. He was of the solar race and was the lord of the west (Paschimadhisvara) and protector of the earth.
- Other branches of the Chagi dynasty are the Vatsavayi, Pusapati, Pericchedi and Telugu Chola (Choda) according to the inscriptions.
- An inscription left in a temple in the Krishna district around 1260 AD gives the genealogy of the Sagis and states the family is of the Bahujakula (Kshatriya). Bahuja means arm or shoulder in Sanskrit and kula means clan. In Hindu mythology, the four castes formed from the body of lord Brahma with the Kshatriyas arising from his arms and chest.
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