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Katakshapur

Forest village on the Warangal–Mulug road beside the Katachpur tank, with two ruined temples on the tank bund dated by style to the Kakatiya period.

A carved shrine doorway of a Katakshapur temple, with pierced screens and figures on the jambs and a standing Vishnu image inside the shrine; high-contrast black-and-white reproduction.
A carved shrine doorway of a Katakshapur temple, with pierced screens and figures on the jambs and a standing Vishnu image inside the shrine; high-contrast black-and-white reproduction. · Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions (G. Yazdani, Director) (opens in a new tab) · Public domain in India

Katakshapur, spelt Katachpur in the older sources, is a village in the forest a furlong west of the Warangal–Mulug road, between its 17th and 18th milestones. When the assistant director of the Hyderabad Archaeological Department, Syed Yusuf, surveyed it in 1935–36, it had shrunk to ten or twelve thatched huts. North of the village lies a large tank of fresh water, the Katachpur tank.1 See the Katakshapur temples.

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions, 1345 F. (1935–36) (1939), p. 8 and Plate XIII (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Public domain in India; paraphrased. ↩

Photos

Monuments

Katakshapur Temples

Two ruined granite Shiva temples on the southern bund of the Katakshapur (Katachpur) tank, beside the Warangal–Mulug road. Hyderabad's Archaeological Department surveyed them in 1935–36. It found no inscription, but judged from their plan and workmanship that they were of the same age as the Palampet, Ghanpur and Thousand Pillar temples.

References

Sources (1)
  1. Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions (G. Yazdani, Director), Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Dominions, 1345 F. (1935-36) (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, 1939, pp. 8, plate XIII. Public domain in India; paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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