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Durgi

Village in the Palnadu country (old Palnad taluk, Guntur district), the Dugyapattana of a 1251 inscription. That record names the temple of Vankesvara founded under Ganapatideva's governor Gangaya-sahini.

The Vankesvara temple

Durgi is in the old Palnad taluk of the Guntur district.1 A slab in its temple of Vankesvarasvami records that, in Saka 1173 (Saka is an Indian way of counting years), Namadeva-Pandita consecrated an image of Vankesvara at Dugyapattana in Pallinadu.1

Namadeva was the agent of Gangaya-sahini, who governed the country from Panugallu to Marjavadi for the Kakatiya king Ganapatideva.1 Gangaya-sahini gave the temple the village of Neypuru, east of Nagarjunakota.1 See the Durgi inscription of Gangaya-sahini.

Later records

An inscription at Durgi of Saka 1241, in the reign of Prataparudra, records that the general Devari-nayaka made a gift of land to temples.2

Footnotes

  1. J. Ramayya Pantulu (ed.), South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. X (1948), p. 171, No. 334 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. V. Venkatasubba Ayyar, “Srirangam Inscription of Kakatiya Prataparudra; Saka 1239”, Epigraphia Indica XXVII (1956), p. 310 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩

Inscriptions

Durgi inscription of Gangaya-sahini

c. 1251 CE

An inscription of Saka 1173 (1251–52) in the Vankesvara temple at Durgi in Palnadu. It records the temple founded by an agent of Gangaya-sahini, who governed the country from Panugallu to Marjavadi for the Kakatiya king Ganapatideva. It also records the village Gangaya-sahini gave the temple, and gives an account of the Kakatiya family.

References

Sources (2)
  1. J. Ramayya Pantulu (ed.), South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. X: Telugu Inscriptions from the Madras Presidency (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India (Manager of Publications, Delhi), 1948, pp. 171. SII X, No. 334. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. B. Ch. Chhabra and N. Lakshminarayan Rao (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXVII (1947–48) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1956, pp. 310. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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