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Kavali

Town in the north of Nellore district. A stone by its tank records the agrahara (village granted to Brahmins) Sripura, founded in 1207–08 by the Telugu Choda king Tammusiddhi. A record of 1228–29 near by is dated in the reign of Gandagopala Tirukaladeva Choda. Robert Sewell's table of the family gives these names to Tikka I.

Telugu Choda records

A stone stands near the tank bund at Kavali, and Alan Butterworth and V. Venugopaul Chetty (1905) thought it lay within the boundaries of Maddurpadu.12 It records that in Saka 1129 (1207–08; Saka is an Indian way of counting years) the Telugu Choda king Tammusiddhi founded an agrahara (village granted to Brahmins) named Sripura, after his mother Sri Devi.12 The Kavali tank formed its eastern boundary.12 See the Kavali inscription.

At Katrayapadu in the same taluk, a record of Saka 1150 (1228–29) is cut on the surplus weir of a tank.3 It is dated in the reign of the Mahamandalesvara Gandagopala Tirukaladeva Choda Maharaja.3 Robert Sewell’s table of the Telugu Chodas gives the names Tirukalattideva and Ganda-Gopala to Tikka I.4

Another record at Kavali names a Manma Siddhi Deva Choda Maharaja, son of Jagadobba-Ganda Kamaya Deva Maharaja, whom the editors placed in the Telugu Choda family.5

Footnotes

  1. Butterworth and Venugopaul Chetty, Nellore Inscriptions II (1905), Kavali No. 39, p. 735 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Butterworth and Venugopaul Chetty, Nellore Inscriptions II (1905), Kavali No. 39, p. 737 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Alan Butterworth and V. Venugopaul Chetty, A Collection of the Inscriptions on Copper-Plates and Stones in the Nellore District, Part II (1905), Kavali No. 38, p. 734 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  4. Robert Sewell, The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (1932), p. 396, genealogical table (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩

  5. Butterworth and Venugopaul Chetty, Nellore Inscriptions II (1905), Kavali Nos. 39–40, p. 740 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

Photos

People

Tammusiddhi

c. 1205–1208 CE

Telugu Choda king of the Pottapi and Nellore family, and a vassal of the Chola king Kulottunga III. He was anointed at Nellore in 1205–06 and made grants at Kanchipuram, Tiruvalangadu, Tiruppasur, Tiruvorriyur, Nellore and Kavali. His inscriptions give the fullest early family tree of the family, but they disagree about who his brother or uncle Nallasiddhi was.

Tikka I (Telugu Choda of Nellore)

c. 1209–1248 CE

Telugu Choda king of Nellore, also called Tirukalatti and Ganda-Gopala, who ruled from about 1209 to 1248 or 1250. He was a loyal vassal of the Chola Rajaraja III, fought the Hoysalas and held Kanchi. In one modern account he owed his throne at Nellore to the Kakatiya Ganapatideva. He was the father of Manumasiddhi II.

Inscriptions

Kavali inscription of Tammusiddhi, 1207–08

1207 CE

Stone by the tank at Kavali in the Nellore district, in Sanskrit verse in Telugu letters, with the boundaries in Telugu. It records that in Saka 1129 (1207–08) the Telugu Choda king Tammusiddhi founded an agrahara (Brahmin village) named Sripura after his mother Sridevi and gave it to a hundred Brahmana shareholders. It calls his brother Nalla Siddha the eldest son and anointed king, by whose favour Tammusiddhi ruled.

References

Sources (2)
  1. Alan Butterworth and V. Venugopaul Chetty, A Collections of the Inscriptions on Copper-Plates and Stones in the Nellore District, Madras, in Three Parts, Part II (opens in a new tab), 1905, pp. 734–740. Butterworth and Venugopaul Chetty, Kavali Nos. 38–40. [Public domain]
  2. Robert Sewell (ed. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar), The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (Collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History (opens in a new tab), University of Madras, 1932. [Public domain in India]

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