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Magallu

Village near Nandigama, probably the Mangallu of an Eastern Chalukya grant of Amma II. The grant was issued while Danarnava held the kingdom, and it gave the village to a Brahmin at the request of Kakatya Gundyana. The 1917 epigraphy report left the choice open between Magallu and Mangollu. The editor of the 1960 edition preferred Magallu because of its position on the Munneru river.

Magallu is one of two villages in the old Nandigama taluk with which the village granted in the Mangallu grant of Amma II has been identified. The epigraphy report for 1916–17 first described the plates.12 It said that they “were dug up in the Nandigama taluk”.12 It said that the village granted “must be identical with one or the other of the two villages Mangollu and Magallu, in the Nandigama taluk of the Kistna district”.12

The 1960 edition

V. Rangacharya edited the grant in 1960, and he repeated both names.3 He identified Konduru, the northern boundary of the village granted, with the village of that name in the same taluk. He described the Nandigama area as the heart of the Natavadi country of the grant.3 The road from the coast to Hyderabad passed through it.3

The journal’s editor added that the river Munna, which the grant places south-west of the village, must be the Munneru.3 Magallu lies close to that river on its east, and Mangollu about ten miles west of it.3 So the editor concluded that the village granted was Magallu.3

The grant

The grant was issued in the name of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II.4 It gave the village as a tax-free agrahara (village granted to Brahmins) in the Natavadi district to a Brahmin named Dommana.4 The gift was made at the request of the chief Kakatya Gundyana.4

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report on Epigraphy, Madras, for 1916–17 (G.O. No. 1035, Home (Education), 10 August 1917), Part II, para. 24, p. 117 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Annual Report on Epigraphy, Madras, for 1916–17 (1917), Part II, para. 24, p. 118 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Rangacharya, “Mangallu Grant of Amma II” (1960), p. 40 and note 4 by the editor (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. V. Rangacharya, “Mangallu Grant of Amma II”, Epigraphia Indica XXXI (1955–56, publ. 1960), p. 38 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

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Inscriptions

Mangallu grant of Amma II

c. 956 CE

Five Sanskrit copper plates issued in the name of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II, dug up in the Nandigama taluk and noticed in 1917. The grant says that after eleven years of rule Amma II went to Kalinga because of the Rashtrakuta Krishna III, and that his half-brother Danarnava then ruled. At the request of Kakatya Gundyana, it gives the village of Mangallu (probably Magallu, near Nandigama) to a Brahmin. Later historians took Gundyana for an early Kakatiya. V. Rangacharya edited the grant in 1960 and disputed the 1917 reading of the key passage.

References

Sources (2)
  1. Madras Government (Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy), Annual Reports on Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for 1915-16 to 1919-20 (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1920, pp. 117–118 (report for 1916–17). Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1916–17, Part II, para. 24. [Public domain]
  2. N. Lakshminarayan Rao and D. C. Sircar (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXI (1955–56) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1960, pp. 38, 40. V. Rangacharya, Mangallu grant of Amma II (No. 6), with an editorial note. Public domain in India; paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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