Mamillapalli inscription of Bhima and Gokarna

What it is

The inscription is engraved on a stone pillar lying in a small Hanuman shrine at Mamillapalli.¹² Mamillapalli is about twelve miles from Achampet in the Mahbubnagar district, and has a temple of Narasimha.¹² The record is Mn. 26 in Part III of P. Sreenivasachar’s Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts (1956).¹² It is reproduced on Plate 26.¹²

Contents

The record is in Sanskrit verse and Telugu prose.¹² It states that the brothers Bhima and Gokarna gave the god Narasimha two villages, Mamillapalli and Manchikunta, one each.¹² It calls them sons of Udayaditya of the dynasty of Karikala-Choda of the solar race.¹²

It is dated Saka 1100 (Saka is an Indian way of counting years), the year Vilambi, on the twelfth day of the bright half of Kartika.² Its last lines, in Telugu prose, record another gift of land to the god at the winter solstice.²

Two further records on the other side of the pillar, Mn. 27, record gifts to the same god.³ An officer of Kanduri Gokarna Chodadeva, lord of Kodur, made one of them with his master’s permission.³

Interpretation

P. V. Parabrahma Sastry called the brothers Bhima IV and Gokarna II.⁴⁵ He made them sons of Udaya Choda II.⁴⁵ In his table he showed them as the last members of the family whose dates he could fix.⁴⁵ He wrote that the Kandur Chodas, as subordinates of the Kakatiyas, became politically unimportant from this time.⁴⁵ See the Kandur Chodas.

Footnotes

1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (1956), p. 61, Mn. 26 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part III (1956), p. 62 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

3. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part III (1956), p. 63, Mn. 27 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩²

4. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 67. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

5. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), pp. 68–69. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴