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Karimnagar

District town in northern Telangana. A pillar here of January 1171 records, in Telugu verse, the foundations of Gangadhara, minister of the Kakatiya chiefs Prola II and Rudradeva.

The Gangadhara pillar

A stone pillar stood in the compound of the Talukdar’s bungalow at Karimnagar.1 It carries a Telugu inscription dated in January 1171, in the reign of the Kakatiya Rudradeva.1 It was published in 1940 as No. 56 of P. Sreenivasachar’s Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts.1

In the inscription Gangadhara, a Brahmin whose family came from the Vengi country, lists what he founded with the favour of the kings Prola and Rudra.23 His foundations were an agrahara (village for Brahmins), temples, tanks and gardens, among them temples at Anumakonda.23 See the Karimnagar inscription of Gangadhara.

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Part II (1940), p. 198, list of inscriptions, No. 56 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part II (1940), p. 174 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  3. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part II (1940), p. 175 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

Photos

People

Baddam Yella Reddy

1906–1978 CE

Telangana leader from Karimnagar district (1906–1978). He was jailed in the salt satyagraha of 1930 and in the Hyderabad State Congress satyagraha of 1938–39. He led the Andhra Mahasabha in 1946 and was a leader of the Communist Party in Hyderabad during the Telangana armed struggle. Later he sat in the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha and the Andhra Pradesh assembly.

V. Prabhakar Rao

before 1948 CE

Communist and president of the Andhra Mahasabha's committee in Karimnagar district, from Polampalli in Karimnagar taluk. In 1947–48 he led armed squads against the Nizam's police and the Razakars, and was killed with several companions when police surrounded his squad near Mandapuram, in Huzurabad taluk, in January 1948.

Inscriptions

Karimnagar inscription of Gangadhara

1171 CE

Telugu verse inscription of January 1171 on a pillar at Karimnagar. In it Gangadhara, a Brahmin from the Vengi country who served the Kakatiya chiefs Prola II and Rudradeva, lists the agrahara (Brahmin village), temples, tanks and gardens he founded. Among them are temples at Anumakonda and an image of Vishnu as the Buddha.

References

Sources (1)
  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. 174–175, 198. No. 56. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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