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Gudur (Jangaon)

Village in the old Jangaon taluk. A pillar here carries Telugu verses telling how the Viriyala chief Erra and the lady Kamasani restored the young Kakatiya chief Beta. Beside them are Kannada records of the Viriyala chief Malla and of the Chalukya prince Someshvara (1124).

The Viriyala pillar

In 1940 Gudur lay in the Jangaon taluk of the Nalgonda district. A stone pillar stands in a street near the village headman’s house and carries several inscriptions.1 One is a Telugu poem in praise of the Viriyala chief Erra. It tells how he set up the boy Bottu Beta in the Koravi country.12 It also tells how, for the sake of the lady Kamasani, he restored the young Kakati lord Beta.12

Another inscription, in Kannada, records that Malla of the Viriyala family built a Shiva temple called Malleshvara at Gumudur.2 He also built a tank and a large well there.2 A Kannada inscription at Gudur of 24 December 1124 records a gift of a village to the god Malleshvara of Gumudur.3 The Western Chalukya prince Someshvara made this gift.3 See the Gudur pillar inscriptions of the Viriyala family.

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Part II (1940), p. 189, list of inscriptions, No. 23 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part II (1940), p. 190, list of inscriptions, Nos. 23–24 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. P. B. Desai, introduction to P. Sreenivasachar, Kannada Inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series 3, 1961), p. 16, No. 44 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

Photos

Inscriptions

Gudur pillar inscriptions of the Viriyala family

c. 1124 CE

Undated Telugu verses on a pillar at Gudur near Jangaon, a pillar that also carries a Kannada record of 1124. They tell how the Viriyala chief Erra and the lady Kamasani restored the boy Beta, the Kakatiya chief, to his position. It is the only early account of the near-collapse of the Kakatiya family in the late tenth century.

References

Sources (2)
  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. 189–190. Nos. 23–24. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. 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. 16. No. 44. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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