Kolanupaka inscription of Jagaddeva

The record

This long inscription in Sanskrit verse is at Kolanupaka in the Nalgonda district.¹ It is numbered Ng. 45 in P. Sreenivasachar’s collection.¹ It describes the Paramara kings of Malwa, down to Udayaditya and his son Jagaddeva.¹ Their first ancestor, it says, was born from the sacrificial fire of the sage Vasishtha near Mount Arbuda.¹ It says that Jagaddeva endeared himself to the Western Chalukya emperor Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya VI, who treated him as his own son.¹

While Jagaddeva was governing the province as mahamandalesvara (great provincial lord), the king’s general built the temple of Jagaddeva-Narayana in Jagaddeva’s capital, Kollipake.¹ The general was Somala Dandanayaka, Great Minister and officer for peace and war.¹ He built the temple for the prosperity of the kingdom.¹

The record is dated Chalukya-Vikrama year 29, the cyclic year Tarana, on the full moon of Chaitra, a Sunday with a lunar eclipse.¹ P. B. Desai found that the date works out correctly to 13 March 1104.¹ On that day Jagaddeva, with the king’s approval, granted the village of Piriya Pembariti for worship and offerings in the temple.¹

A second record at Kolanupaka, of 25 December 1107, registers a gift of certain taxes by the king’s general Anantapala.²¹ The gift was to the god Jagadeva-Narayana “of the capital Kolliyapake”.²¹

Jagaddeva in Telangana

P. V. Parabrahma Sastry dated Jagaddeva’s governorship of the Kollipake seven-thousand province to 1104–1108.³⁴⁵ This province was a region administered directly for the king.³⁴⁵ He cited a second Kolanupaka record, of 8 April 1106, crediting Jagaddeva with victories over the kings of Vengi, Dravida, Chakrakuta and Mahira.³⁴⁵

In his view, Jagaddeva fell out with the king when the Sabbi thousand district, near his province, was given to the Kakatiya Beta II.⁶⁷ In this account, the king’s son, Kumara Somesvara, then replaced Jagaddeva as viceroy.⁶⁷ Jagaddeva later attacked Anumakonda, Parabrahma Sastry writes, and was driven off by Beta’s son Prola II.⁶⁷

Earlier writers did not connect the Jagaddeva who besieged Anumakonda with the Paramara prince. J. F. Fleet, in 1896, took him to be the Santara chief Tribhuvanamalla-Jagaddeva, who was ruling in 1149.⁸ Fleet noted that the Kakatiya inscription of 1163 mentions him “as laying siege to Anamkond”.⁸ See the page on Beta II for this disagreement.

Footnotes

1. Desai, Kannada Inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh (1961), p. 18, Nos. 46–47 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased except for the short phrase quoted. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. P. B. Desai, introduction to P. Sreenivasachar, Kannada Inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series 3, 1961), p. 17, No. 46 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased except for the short phrase quoted. ↩ ↩²

3. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 69. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 70. ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 71. ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 72. ↩ ↩² ↩³

7. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 73. ↩ ↩² ↩³

8. J. F. Fleet, “Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts”, Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency I, pt. II (1896), p. 458 and note 2 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩²