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Matedu

Village on the Warangal–Khammam road with twin Shiva and Vishnu temples. Pillar inscriptions of 1120 there record temples built by Malle-nayaka, a soldier of Prola II. A record of 1310 records a levy given by the villagers in Prataparudra's reign.

The temples

Matedu lies about 40 miles from Warangal on the road to Khammam, in the former Mahbubabad taluk.1 A short way from the road, two temples stand side by side in one enclosure, one for Shiva and one for Vishnu.12

Telugu inscriptions on a stone pillar there record the work of Malle-nayaka of the Vemabola family.342 He was a soldier in the service of the Kakatiya Prola II.342 In 1120 he built temples and gave them land at Mallasamudram.342 A verse account of his family on the same pillar says that his father Reva fought for the Kakatiyas.342 See the Matedu inscription.

The record of 1310

A Telugu inscription on a slab in the Gopalasvami temple at Matedu is dated Saka 1232 (1310; Saka is an Indian way of counting years), in the reign of Prataparudra.5 It records a gift to the temple by all the eighteen prajas (communities) of the village.56 They gave a levy of five visas on every mada (a coin) of their siddhaya tax.56

P. V. Parabrahma Sastry used it as evidence that siddhaya was by then a money levy on land. He also noted that it names the town body (nagaramu) alongside the other corporate groups that made the gift.78

Footnotes

  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (1956), p. 139, No. Wg. 10 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  2. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, vol. 2 (2023), pp. 54–55, Nos. 22–23. Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part III (1956), p. 140, No. Wg. 10 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part III (1956), p. 143, No. Wg. 12 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part III (1956), p. 145, No. Wg. 13 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. Sreenivasachar, Corpus, Part III (1956), p. 146, No. Wg. 13 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  7. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 184. ↩

  8. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 213. ↩

Photos

Inscriptions

Matedu inscription of Vemabola Malle-nayaka

1120 CE

Telugu inscriptions of 1120 on a stone pillar at Matedu. They record temples built by Malle-nayaka of the Vemabola family, a soldier of the Kakatiya Prola II under the Chalukya Vikramaditya VI. Their verse family history of a 'Pulinda' family says that his father Reva helped establish the Kakatiya kings.

References

Sources (3)
  1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (opens in a new tab), Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1956, pp. 139–146. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.); Gautam Pingle (gen. ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, Vol. 2: Imperial Kakatiyas (opens in a new tab), Dr MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Government of Telangana, 2023, pp. 54–55. Paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
  3. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1978, pp. 184, 213. Paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]

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