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Ghanpur (Mulug)

Village north-east of Palampet with the Kota Gullu, a walled group of twenty-two Kakatiya-period shrines, and the Ghanpur tank.

A dark stone bracket figure of a woman standing against a slanting bracket under the eave of the main Ghanpur temple, above a carved pillar capital and a moulded wall, lit from the side.
A dark stone bracket figure of a woman standing against a slanting bracket under the eave of the main Ghanpur temple, above a carved pillar capital and a moulded wall, lit from the side. · Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions (G. Yazdani, Director) (opens in a new tab) · Public domain

The temples stand at Ghanpur, eight miles north-east of Palampet and fifty miles north-east of Warangal. The Archaeological Department of Hyderabad State called them the most important and interesting discovery of 1932–33, and described them as “a replica of the famous Palampet temples”.1 See the Ghanpur temples (Kota Gullu).

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions for the year 1342 Fasli (1932–33), bound with the report for 1931–32 (1935), p. 53 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

Photos

Monuments

Ghanpur Temples (Kota Gullu)

c. 1213 CE

A walled group of twenty-two sandstone shrines at Ghanpur near Mulug, eight miles from Palampet. The main temple follows the plan of the Ramappa temple and has black-stone bracket figures like those at Palampet. Hyderabad's Archaeological Department made the group known in 1932–33. It found no inscription and dated it by its style to the time of the Palampet temples. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry gave it to the Kakatiya general Recherla Rudra.

References

Sources (1)
  1. Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions (G. Yazdani, Director; Syed Yusuf, Assistant Director), Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Dominions, 1341-42 F. (1931-32 and 1932-33) (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, 1935, pp. 53–54, 66, plates IV–V (report for 1932–33). [Public domain]

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