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Guraja

Village in the old Gudivada taluk of Kistna (Krishna) district. It is the findspot of a copper-plate grant of 1346. In it the Musunuri chief Kapaya Nayaka gave the village of Prolavaram for the merit of his predecessor Prolaya Nayaka.

Where Kapaya’s grant was found

Guraja is a village in the Gudivada taluk of the old Krishna (then Kistna) district.12 The copper plates of Kapaya-nayaka came to the government epigraphist from here, and he registered them as copper-plate No. 3 of 1934–35.12

The grant is dated 22 February 1346.12 It records the gift of the village of Prolavaram on the Malaghni stream.12 The epigraphist noted that the Jujjavaram plates of the Reddi king Anna-Vema name the same stream and come from the same taluk.12 See the Guraja grant and Kapaya Nayaka.

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report on South-Indian Epigraphy for the Year ending 31st March 1935 (1938), p. 73, para. 52 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Annual Report on South-Indian Epigraphy for 1934–35 (1938), p. 74 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

Inscriptions

Guraja grant of Kapaya Nayaka

1346 CE

A copper-plate grant from Guraja in the old Kistna district, dated at the solar eclipse of 22 February 1346. By it the Musunuri chief Kapaya Nayaka gave the village of Prolavaram, on the Malaghni stream, to the scholar Kandaya Peddi-Bhatta. He gave it for the merit of his predecessor Prolaya Nayaka. The grant gives the Musunuri family line for three generations and places Kapaya's capital at Ekasilanagari, Warangal.

References

Sources (1)
  1. Madras Government (Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle), Annual Report on South-Indian Epigraphy for the Year ending 31st March 1935 (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1938, pp. 73–74. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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