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Mudigonda

Village near Khammam in Telangana. It is identified with Mudugondu, the place that gave its name to the Mudigonda branch of the Chalukyas in the copper-plate grant of Kusumayudha IV. Its inscriptions include a broken Kannada record of 999 and two Telugu records of 1294 for the temple of Gopinatha.

Mudigonda is a village near Khammam in Telangana.1 The Chalukyas of Mudigonda took their name from their headquarters in the Khammam district, according to Epigraphia Telanganica (2023).2 Inscriptions of 999 and 1294 have been found at the village.345

The copper-plate grant of Kusumayudha IV was published by Cecil Bendall in 1903.6 It calls the donor’s family the Madugonda-Chalukyas of Mudugondu.67 It also says that a younger brother of the family’s founder, Kokiraja, lived at Mudugonduru.67 P. V. Parabrahma Sastry identified Mudugondu with the village of Mudigonda near Khammam.1 Epigraphia Telanganica likewise explains the dynasty’s name as that of its headquarters in the Khammam district.2

Epigraphia Telanganica lists a broken Kannada inscription at Mudigonda, dated 999.3 It seems to record the digging of a tank.3 Two Telugu inscriptions of January 1294 are on a pillar found on the way to Vallabhi.45 They record gifts to the god Gopinatha of Mudigonda by a chief named Ganapatideva.45 The village priests, the Vaddes and the mahajanas (members of the village assembly) gave further gifts.45 The editors of one summary thought the chief perhaps belonged to the Chalukya lineage.45

Footnotes

  1. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 52. ↩ ↩2

  2. Epigraphia Telanganica I (2023), p. 353. Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  3. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica I: Pre-Kakatiya Telangana (2023), p. 99, summarising the Andhra Pradesh Annual Report on Epigraphy, 1967. Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Epigraphia Telanganica III: Decline of Kakatiyas (2023), p. 302, summarising the Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy for 1987-88, p. 17. Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. Epigraphia Telanganica III (2023), p. 303, summarising Andhra Pradesh Archaeology: A Review 1987-2001 (2002), p. 112. Cite-only; paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. C. Bendall, “Grant of Kusumayudha IV”, Indian Antiquary XXXII (1903), p. 281 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

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

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.

References

Sources (4)
  1. R. C. Temple (ed.), The Indian Antiquary, Vol. XXXII (1903) (opens in a new tab), Education Society's Press, Bombay, 1903, pp. 281, 284. C. Bendall, Grant of Kusumayudha IV. [Public domain]
  2. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1978, pp. 52. Paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
  3. 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. 99, 353. Cite-only; paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
  4. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.); Gautam Pingle (gen. ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, Vol. 3: Decline of Kakatiyas, Dr MCR Human Resource Development Institute, Government of Telangana, 2023, pp. 302–303. Cite-only; paraphrased. [All rights reserved (cited]

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