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Kazipet

Town in the old Warangal taluk. A pillar now in the Dargah of Syed Shah Afzal Biyabani carries the Kakatiya inscription of 1090 and 1098, the main source for the earliest Kakatiya chiefs.

The Dargah pillar

Kazipet lay in the Warangal taluk of the old Warangal district. A stone pillar carrying a damaged Sanskrit and Kannada inscription stands in the Dargah (shrine) of Hazrat Syed Shah Afzal Biyabani, not far from the railway station.1 P. Sreenivasachar published it in 1940 as No. 7 of his Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts.2

The inscription records a grant of 1090 by the Kakatiya chief Beta II to a Kalamukha teacher of Sriparvata.1 It also records that his son Dugga-Tribhuvanamalla set up the pillar in 1098.1 P. V. Parabrahma Sastry used its verses as the main source for the career of Beta II’s father, Prola I.34 See the Kazipet Dargah pillar inscription.

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Part II (1940), p. 185, list of inscriptions, No. 7 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part II (1940), p. 25 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩

  3. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 45. ↩

  4. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 49. ↩

Photos

Inscriptions

Kazipet Dargah pillar inscription

1090–1098 CE

A damaged Sanskrit and Kannada pillar inscription, now in the Dargah at Kazipet near Hanamkonda. It records a Kakatiya grant of 1090 to a Kalamukha teacher of Srisailam. It also records that Beta II's son Dugga-Tribhuvanamalla set up the pillar in 1098. Its verses are the main source for the earliest Kakatiya chiefs, Beta I, Prola I and Beta II.

References

Sources (2)
  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. 25, 185. No. 7. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1978, pp. 45, 49. Paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]

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