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The Chalukyas of Vemulavada and Mudigonda

Era: Eastern Chalukyas & the Deccan powers

The Chalukyas of Vemulavada and MudigondaGodavariKrishnaVemulavadaVemulavadaKurikyalKurikyalBodhanBodhanMudigondaMudigondaKuravi (Koravi)Kuravi (Koravi)KukunoorKukunoorMalkhed (Manyakheta)Malkhed (Manyakheta)Vengi (Pedavegi)Vengi (Pedavegi)Chennur (record of 940)Gudur (inscription)N0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation

Places named in the records of the two Chalukya families of Telangana: Vemulavada (Lembulavataka), capital of the Chalukyas of Vemulavada; Podana (Bodhan), where their founder bathed his elephants in oil; the Bommala Gutta at Kurikyal with the inscription of Pampa's brother; Chennur on the Godavari, with a record of a subordinate of Arikesari II; and Mudigonda, Koravi (Kuravi) and Kukunoor, places of the Chalukyas of Mudigonda, with the Rashtrakuta capital Malkhed and Vengi for reference.

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

Sources

  1. N. Venkataramanayya, The Chalukyas of L(V)emulavada (opens in a new tab), The Archaeological Department, Government of Hyderabad (printed at the G. S. Press, Madras), 1953, pp. 18, 22, 37, 82–84, 93. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. R. C. Temple (ed.), The Indian Antiquary, Vol. XXXII (1903) (opens in a new tab), Education Society's Press, Bombay, 1903, pp. 281, 284. C. Bendall, Grant of Kusumayudha IV. [Public domain]
  3. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Part II: Texts and Translations (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, 1940, pp. 78–79. [Public domain in India]
  4. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1978, pp. 39, 41, 52. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
  5. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.); Gautam Pingle (gen. ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, Vol. 1: Pre-Kakatiya Telangana, Dr MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Government of Telangana, 2023, pp. 81, 351, 394, 399. Cite-only. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]