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Kondaparti

Village near Warangal with two Kakatiya pillar inscriptions of the Malyala generals. They are Chaunda's Chaundeshvara temple record of 1203 and Kata's record of 1241.

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The Malyala records

Kondaparti lay in the Warangal taluk of the old Warangal district. Two inscribed pillars of the Malyala family were found there, one in the Venugopalasvami temple and one in the Trikuta temple.1 The first records that in 1203 Malyala Chaunda built a temple in the city of Kondaparti.21 He was the commander-in-chief of the Kakatiya king Ganapatideva, and he installed Shiva in the temple as Chaundeshvara.21 The second, of 1241, records temples of Shiva, Keshava and Proleshvara built by Kata of the same family.1

P. V. Parabrahma Sastry called Kondaparti the family’s ancestral home near Warangal.3 He wrote that Chaunda built the Chaundesha temple there to mark his capture of the Divi island.4 See the Kondaparti inscription of Malyala Chaunda.

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Part II (1940), p. 186, list of inscriptions, Nos. 8–9 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part II (1940), p. 40, verses 29 and 36 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  3. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 151. ↩

  4. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 150. ↩

Photos

Monuments

Choundesvara Temple, Kondaparti

1203 CE

A temple of Choundesvara and a tank, the Chaunda-samudra, at Kondaparti near Warangal. Both were built by Chaunda of the Malyala family, a general of the Kakatiya king Ganapatideva. His inscription there of 1203 records his part in Ganapatideva's conquest of the Divi island.

Inscriptions

Kondaparti inscription of Malyala Chaunda

1203 CE

A Sanskrit inscription of April 1203 on a pillar at Kondaparti near Warangal. It records the temple of Chaundeshvara and the gift of a village by Malyala Chaunda, commander-in-chief of the young Kakatiya king Ganapatideva. It gives the family line of the Malyala generals. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry read it as the record of the Kakatiya conquest of the Divi island.

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. 40, 186. Nos. 8–9. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1978, pp. 150–151. Paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]

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