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Telugu Historyతెలుగు చరిత్ర

The Western Chalukyas of Kalyani and the Telugu country

Era: Eastern Chalukyas & the Deccan powers, Kakatiyas

The Western Chalukyas of Kalyani and the Telugu countryGodavariKrishnaKalyani (Basavakalyan)Kalyani (Basavakalyan)PatancheruPatancheruKolanupakaKolanupakaBodhanBodhanPanugallu (Panagal)Panugallu (Panagal)Polasa (Polavasa)Polasa (Polavasa)HanamkondaHanamkondaAlampurAlampurTripurantakamTripurantakamVengi (Pedavegi)Vengi (Pedavegi)DraksharamaDraksharamaJammikunta (Taila II, 995)N0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation

Places in the Telugu country named in the records of the Western Chalukyas of Kalyani: Patancheru (Pottalakere), where Somesvara III's coronation grant was found; Kolanupaka (Kollipake), seat of a province; Bodhan; Panugallu of the Kandur Chodas; Polasa (Polavasa) of the Medaraja family; Hanamkonda (Anumakonda) of the Kakatiya feudatories; Jammikunta, with the earliest record of Taila II near Anumakonda; the temples of Alampur; Tripurantakam, where an inscription of 1126 names the general ruling Vengi; Vengi and Draksharama on the coast; and the capital Kalyani, outside the Telugu country to the west.

Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).

Sources

  1. Dr. P. SREENIVASACHAR, M.A., Ph. D. (London) & Prof. P. B. DESAI, M.A., Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series No. 3. KANNADA INSCRIPTIONS OF ANDHRA PRADESH (opens in a new tab), 1961, pp. 4-5, 16-20, 32-40. P. B. Desai's summaries of the Kannada inscriptions of Patancheru, Kolanupaka, Panugallu, Bodhan and Alampur. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. R. Shama Sastry (ed.), South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts), Vol. IX, Part I: Kannada Inscriptions from the Madras Presidency (opens in a new tab), Manager of Publications, Delhi, 1939, pp. 213-214. South-Indian Inscriptions IX, pt. I: Tripurantakam. [Public domain in India]
  3. J. F. Fleet, R. G. Bhandarkar and others (Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency), Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part II: History of the Konkan, Dakhan and Southern Maratha Country (opens in a new tab), Government Central Press, Bombay, 1896, pp. 427-428, 437. J. F. Fleet on Kalyani, Kollipake and Pottalakere. [Public domain]
  4. E. Hultzsch and Sten Konow (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. IX (1907–08) (opens in a new tab), Government of India, Calcutta, 1908, pp. 256-259. H. Krishna Sastri, Anmakonda inscription of Prola. [Public domain]
  5. Robert Sewell (ed. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar), The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (Collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History (opens in a new tab), University of Madras, 1932, pp. 75, 96-99. Draksharama and the Vengi country. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  6. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1978, pp. 42, 58, 64. Jammikunta, Polavasa, Panugallu. Cite-only; paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]