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Inavolu

Village near Warangal with a temple of Mailara (Malleshvara). In 1369, after the fall of the Kakatiyas, the Recherla Velama chief Anapota-nayaka granted the village to this temple.

A low stone hall of many turned pillars on a stepped plinth with carved bands, its flat stone roof projecting in several angles.
A low stone hall of many turned pillars on a stepped plinth with carved bands, its flat stone roof projecting in several angles. · P. Madhusudan (opens in a new tab) · CC0 (opens in a new tab)

The Mailara temple

Inavolu (Ainavolu) lies about 8 miles from Warangal, a couple of miles off the road to Khammam.1 Its temple of the god Mailara, also called Mallara or Malleshvara, has a broken inscribed stone near its flagstaff.12

The inscription records a grant made on 19 July 1369 by Anapota-nayaka of the Recherla family.12 He was then ruling Orugallu and the Telugu country around it.12 He granted the village, under its old name Ayyanavolu, to the god Mailaradeva.12 The inscription’s genealogy of the Recherla chiefs recalls their service under the Kakatiya king Prataparudra.1 See the Inavolu inscription.

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (1956), p. 119, No. Wg. 1 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, vol. 4 (2023), p. 18, No. 5. Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

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People

Anapota Nayaka (Recherla)

c. 1361–1384 CE

Recherla Velama chief (r. c. 1361–1384), son of Singama Nayaka. He fortified Rachakonda in 1365 and overthrew the Musunuri chief Kapaya Nayaka about 1368. By July 1369 he ruled Warangal, Bhongir and Rachakonda. With his brother Mada of Devarakonda he made the Recherla family the leading power of Telangana.

Monuments

Mailaradeva Temple, Inavolu

The temple of Mailaradeva at Inavolu (Ainavolu) near Warangal, with a star-shaped pillared hall and stone gateways in its walled court. S. Gopalakrishna Murthy, in 1964, recorded the local tradition that the Kakatiya king Rudradeva built the main temple. He suggested that one of Ganapatideva's generals added the hall, and saw its gateways as forerunners of the great toranas (arched gateways) of Warangal fort.

Inscriptions

Inavolu inscription of Recherla Anapota

1369 CE

A Sanskrit and Telugu inscription of 19 July 1369 at the Mailara (Mallikarjuna) temple of Inavolu near Warangal. In it the Recherla Velama chief Anapota-nayaka, who ruled Orugallu after the Kakatiyas, grants the village to the god. Its family history says his grandfather Dacaya conquered the Pandyas for Prataparudra.

References

Sources (2)
  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (opens in a new tab), Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1956, pp. 119. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.); Gautam Pingle (gen. ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, Vol. 4: Post-Kakatiya Telangana, Dr MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Government of Telangana, 2023, pp. 18. Paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]

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