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Dharmasagar

Village near Hanamkonda with an undated pillar inscription of Ganapatideva's minister Malla, which divides an endowment among temple musicians, dancers and priests.

The pillar inscription

Dharmasagar lay in the Warangal taluk of the old Warangal district. A stone pillar standing very near the boys’ school carries a Sanskrit and Telugu inscription of the reign of the Kakatiya king Ganapa (Ganapatideva). P. Sreenivasachar placed it first in Part II of his Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts (1940).1 It records land given by the minister Malla, or Galanta Mallaya, to the god Prasanna-Vishveshvara of Elakurki. The land was divided among dancing women, drummers, pipers and other musicians, priests and the temple.12 See the Dharmasagar inscription of the minister Malla.

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Part II (1940), p. 183, list of inscriptions, No. 1 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  2. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part II (1940), p. 4 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩

Photos

Inscriptions

Dharmasagar inscription of the minister Malla

An undated Sanskrit and Telugu pillar inscription of Ganapatideva's reign at Dharmasagar near Hanamkonda. It records land given by the minister Malla to the god Prasanna-Vishveshvara of Elakurki. It also records how the land was shared among temple musicians, dancers and priests.

References

Sources (1)
  1. 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. 4, 183. No. 1. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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