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Kandukur

Town formerly in the Nellore district, now in Prakasam. C. R. Krishnamacharlu took it to be the Kandukura of the Pallava Uruvupalli grant. The grant gave land to a temple of Vishnuhara there, which he thought was one of the early temples of Kandukur. He also thought the southern part of the Kandukur taluk lay in the ancient Mundarashtra.

The Uruvupalli grant was issued by the Pallava crown prince Vishnugopa.1 In J. F. Fleet’s translation, it gave two hundred nivartanas (a land measure) in the village of Uruvupalli as “a possession of the gods at Kandukura”.1 Its boundaries mention the village of Kendukura and the road to Kandukura.1

C. R. Krishnamacharlu corrected Fleet’s reading of the passage.2 In his reading, the land went as temple land to a temple of Vishnuhara built by a general.2 He thought this was one of the early temples of Kandukur.2

Mundarashtra

Krishnamacharlu identified the Mundarashtra of the Uruvupalli, Pikira and Vilavatti grants with the Munda-nadu of later Nellore inscriptions.3 The villages he could trace pointed to the Kovur taluk.3 But he thought the southern part of the Kandukur taluk also lay in this district.3

D. C. Sircar placed the village granted in the Vunna Guravayapalem plates of Paramesvaravarman I in the Podili–Kandukur region.4 He put it on the river Musi, which runs between the Kandukur and Ongole taluks.4

Footnotes

  1. J. F. Fleet, “Sanskrit and Old-Canarese Inscriptions, No. XII”, Indian Antiquary V (1876), pp. 52–53, translation (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Krishnamacharlu, “Vilavatti Grant” (1938), p. 302, notes (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. C. R. Krishnamacharlu, “Vilavatti Grant of Pallava Simhavarman”, Epigraphia Indica XXIV (1937–38), p. 301 and note (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. D. C. Sircar and P. Seshadri Sastri, “Vunna Guravayapalem Plates of Paramesvaravarman I, Year 19”, Epigraphia Indica XXXII (1957–58), p. 96 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

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Vishnugopa (Pallava crown prince)

c. 475–500 CE

Pallava prince of the Nellore–Guntur line, son of Skandavarman II and father of Simhavarman. As crown prince (yuvamaharaja) he issued the Uruvupalli grant from Palakkada, dated in the 11th year of a king Simhavarman, giving land to a temple at Kandukura. Scholars disagree whether he ever reigned, and who the Simhavarman of his grant was.

Errapragada

c. 1280–1350 CE

Telugu poet of the 14th century, the third of the 'Kavitraya' who completed the Telugu Mahabharata. He finished the Aranya Parva that Nannaya had left incomplete. He was a Niyogi Brahman of Gudluru in the Nellore country and a devotee of Siva (Sambhudasa). He was attached to Prolaya Vema, the founder of the Reddi kingdom, and dedicated his Harivamsa to him. He also wrote a Ramayana and the Narasimha Purana for the god of Ahobilam.

References

Sources (3)
  1. James Burgess (ed.), The Indian Antiquary, Vol. V (1876) (opens in a new tab), Education Society's Press, Bombay, 1876, pp. 52–53. J. F. Fleet, the Uruvupalli grant. [Public domain]
  2. N. P. Chakravarti (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIV (1937–38) (opens in a new tab), Manager of Publications, Delhi, 1938, pp. 301–302. C. R. Krishnamacharlu, Vilavatti Grant. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  3. D. C. Sircar and B. Ch. Chhabra (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXII (1957–58) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1959, pp. 96. D. C. Sircar and P. Seshadri Sastri, Vunna Guravayapalem Plates. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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