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Kukunoor

Village on the Godavari near Bhadrachalam, in the old Khammam district. It was transferred to Andhra Pradesh in 2014 and is now in the Eluru district. It is the findspot of the Kukkunur copper plates of Kusumaditya of the Mudigonda Chalukyas, and their editor thought it was the village of Krichchaka granted in them.

Kukunoor gave its name to the Kukkunur plates of Kusumaditya, a Telugu copper-plate grant of the Chalukyas of Mudigonda. The epigraphist’s report of 1971-72 gave the findspot as Kukkanuru near Bhadrachalam, in the Bhadrachalam taluk of the Khammam district.12

The Director of Archaeology and Museums at Hyderabad acquired the plates.12 The plates grant the village of Krichchaka, bounded on the east and north by the Godavari. Their editor, Bh. Lakshminarayana, thought Krichchaka was in all probability Kukkunur itself, since the river flows close by.3

Footnotes

  1. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica I: Pre-Kakatiya Telangana (2023), p. 351, summarising the Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy for 1971-72, p. 20. Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  2. Epigraphia Telanganica I (2023), p. 352, reprinting Bh. Lakshminarayana, “Kukkunuru Plates of Kusumadya”, Epigraphia Andhrica II (1974). Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  3. Epigraphia Telanganica I (2023), p. 356, reprinting Lakshminarayana (1974). Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩

People

Kusumaditya (Chalukya of Mudigonda)

Chief of the Mudigonda branch of the Chalukyas, son of Bottu-Beta, known from the Kukkunur copper plates found near Bhadrachalam. They tell how a disaster struck in the first year of his rule, and his ministers Indaparaju and Remaraju carried him into exile for twelve years. They brought him back to rule the Visuru-nadu, and he rewarded them with an agrahara (village grant) on the Godavari. Its editor dated the letters to about 1200; P. V. Parabrahma Sastry placed Kusumaditya and his brother Nagati about 1218.

Inscriptions

Kukkunur plates of Kusumaditya

Copper-plate grant in Telugu prose, with Sanskrit verses, of Kusumaditya of the Mudigonda branch of the Chalukyas, found at Kukkunur near Bhadrachalam. It traces the family from Kariya-Gonaga, lord of Koravipura. It tells how Kusumaditya's ministers Indaparaju and Remaraju took him into twelve years of exile and brought him back to the Visuru-nadu, and it grants them the village of Krichchaka on the Godavari. Its editor called it the earliest copper-plate grant written entirely in Telugu prose. It is undated, and estimates range from the 11th century to about 1200.

References

Sources (1)
  1. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.); Gautam Pingle (gen. ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, Vol. 1: Pre-Kakatiya Telangana, Dr MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Government of Telangana, 2023, pp. 351–352, 356. Cite-only; paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]

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