Kurikyal
Village near Gangadhara in the Karimnagar district of Telangana. On the Bommala Gutta, a rocky hill in its lands, Jinavallabha, younger brother of the Kannada poet Pampa, carved Jaina images and an inscription in Sanskrit, Kannada and Telugu. He did this in the time of the Chalukya king Arikesari II of Vemulavada, about 945.
Kurikyal is a village in the Karimnagar district. The Bommala Gutta is a hillock within its lands near Gangadharam.1 It carries the rock inscription of Jinavallabha, the younger brother of the poet Pampa, with Jaina images carved beside it.1
N. Venkataramanayya placed the hill about 13 miles west of Karimnagar, on the road to Kamareddy. He took the irrigation tank at its northern foot to be the successor of the tank that Jinavallabha dug and named after Pampa.2 He noted that Jaina images lay scattered in the fields round Gangadharam, which he thought had been an important Jaina centre.2
Footnotes
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Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica I: Pre-Kakatiya Telangana (2023), p. 394, reprinting N. Venkataramanayya, “The Kurkiyala Inscription of Jinavallabha”, Epigraphia Andhrica II (1974), pp. 21–28. Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2
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Epigraphia Telanganica I (2023), p. 399, reprinting Venkataramanayya (1974). Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2
Photos
"10th century Bommalagutta Jain bas-reliefs and inscription, Telangana - 01" (photograph by P. Madhusudan, 2021, Wikimedia Commons)Photograph · 2021
"10th century Bommalagutta Jain bas-reliefs and inscription, Telangana - 07" (photograph by P. Madhusudan, 2021, Wikimedia Commons)Photograph · 2021
"10th century Bommalagutta Jain bas-reliefs and inscription, Telangana - 12" (photograph by P. Madhusudan, 2021, Wikimedia Commons)Photograph · 2021
"10th century Bommalagutta Jain bas-reliefs and inscription, Telangana - 27" (photograph by P. Madhusudan, 2021, Wikimedia Commons)Photograph · 2021
"10th century Bommalagutta Jain bas-reliefs and inscription, Telangana - 9" (photograph by P. Madhusudan, 2021, Wikimedia Commons)Photograph · 2021
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People
Pampa (Adi Pampa)
902 CE
Kannada poet, born in 902 into a Brahmana family from the Vengi country that had become Jaina. At the court of the Chalukya king Arikesari II of Vemulavada he wrote the Adipurana and the Vikramarjunavijaya or 'Pampa Bharata' (941). In the second poem he made his patron the epic hero Arjuna. A rock inscription of his younger brother Jinavallabha on the Bommala Gutta at Kurikyal, near Karimnagar, gives his family and the village the king granted him.
Arikesari II (Chalukya of Vemulavada)
c. 930–955 CE
Chalukya king of Vemulavada in today's Karimnagar district, a feudatory of the Rashtrakutas, who ruled from about 930 to about 955. He was the patron of the Kannada poet Pampa, who made him the hero of his Vikramarjunavijaya (941). His pillar inscription at Vemulavada gives the family line and records a gift to a Sun temple in his capital, Lembulavataka. He sheltered a Chalukya prince named Bijja from the Rashtrakuta king Govinda IV, and helped bring Govinda's uncle Baddega (Amoghavarsha III) to the throne.
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