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Kuravi (Koravi)

Village in the Mahabubabad country of Telangana, the Koravi of medieval inscriptions. The Mudigonda branch of the Chalukyas held it as Koravipura, the seat of their Koravi country. A stone inscription there tells how a Mudigonda chief recovered it from the Rashtrakutas in the time of the Eastern Chalukya Chalukya-Bhima I. The early Kakatiyas also held it for a time.

According to P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, Koravi, the modern Kuravi, lies in the old Mahabubabad taluk of the Warangal district, about 50 miles south of Warangal.1 It appears as the southern boundary of the village given in the copper-plate grant of Kusumayudha IV of the Chalukyas of Mudigonda.2 The later Kukkunur plates call an ancestor of the family “lord of Koravipura”.3

Mudigonda chiefs and Kakatiyas

N. Venkataramanayya summarised an undated inscription at Koravi in 1953.4 It says that the Rashtrakuta king Krishna II seized the lands of the Ranamarddaka family.4 Their chief Kusumayudha won them back and helped crown the Eastern Chalukya Chalukya-Bhima I.4 Venkataramanayya held that the Mudigonda chief Bijayita ruled the country from Kondapalli to Koravi.5

Parabrahma Sastry argued that the early Kakatiyas held part of the Koravi region as Rashtrakuta frontier guards.16 He argued that after 973 the Kakatiya Gunda IV drove the Mudigonda chief out of Koravi, which was then their capital.16

An inscription at Gudur says that Erra of the Viriyala family established Bottu-Beta in the Koravi country.7 Parabrahma Sastry held that the family kept Koravi until the Kakatiyas grew independent in the late 12th century.8

Footnotes

  1. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 39. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. C. Bendall, “Grant of Kusumayudha IV”, Indian Antiquary XXXII (1903), p. 284 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  3. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica I: Pre-Kakatiya Telangana (2023), p. 353. Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩

  4. N. Venkataramanayya, The Chalukyas of L(V)emulavada (1953), p. 22 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. Venkataramanayya, Chalukyas of L(V)emulavada (1953), p. 37, note 55 continued (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩

  6. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 41. ↩ ↩2

  7. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions, Part II (1942), p. 79 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩

  8. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 56. ↩

Dynasties

Chalukyas of Mudigonda

c. 890–1218 CE

A family of Chalukya chiefs named after Mudigonda (Mudugondu) near Khammam. They held the Manchikonda district and the Koravi (Kuravi) country, between Vengi and Vemulavada, from the late 9th century to about 1200. They served the Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi, later the Chalukyas of Kalyani, and lost their lands to the Kakatiyas. They are known from two copper-plate grants (the Mogalcheruvula grant of Kusumayudha IV and the Kukkunur plates of Kusumaditya), a stone inscription at Koravi and passing references in other dynasties' records.

People

Kusumayudha IV (Chalukya of Mudigonda)

c. 1040–1065 CE

Chief of the Mudigonda branch of the Chalukyas, known from a Sanskrit copper-plate grant, the Mogalcheruvula grant. Cecil Bendall found it in the Nizam's treasury at Hyderabad in 1899 and published it in 1903. It gives a village near Koravi in the Manchikonda district to a Brahmana, and sets out eight generations of the family from Kokiraja. Bendall dated the letters to the 11th century or later; N. Venkataramanayya placed Kusumayudha IV about 1040–1065.

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.

References

Sources (5)
  1. R. C. Temple (ed.), The Indian Antiquary, Vol. XXXII (1903) (opens in a new tab), Education Society's Press, Bombay, 1903, pp. 284. C. Bendall, Grant of Kusumayudha IV. [Public domain]
  2. N. Venkataramanayya, The Chalukyas of L(V)emulavada (opens in a new tab), The Archaeological Department, Government of Hyderabad (printed at the G. S. Press, Madras), 1953, pp. 22, 37. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  3. 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. 79. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  4. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1978, pp. 39, 41, 56. Paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
  5. 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. 353. Cite-only; paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]

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