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Nagunur

Village north-east of Karimnagar with the remains of many temples, among them a large three-shrined Shiva temple with an inscription of Rudradeva's reign.

A ruined pillared temple with a flat roof in open ground, beside a tall monolithic pillar crowned by a small pavilion that once held a Garuda figure.
A ruined pillared temple with a flat roof in open ground, beside a tall monolithic pillar crowned by a small pavilion that once held a Garuda figure. · Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions (G. Yazdani, Director) (opens in a new tab) · Public domain

Nagunur, or Nagnur, is a village about six miles north-east of Karimnagar. The assistant director of the Hyderabad Archaeological Department, who surveyed it in 1927–28, judged from the many temple remains there that it had once been a place of some importance.1 See the Nagunur temples.

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions, 1337 F. (1927–28) (1929), p. 6 (account by the Assistant Director) (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

Photos

Monuments

Temples of Nagunur

c. 1171 CE

Ruined temples at Nagunur, six miles north-east of Karimnagar. The chief one is a large triple-shrined Shiva temple of red stone and granite. Nagunur was the seat of Gangadhara, a minister of the Kakatiya king Rudradeva. According to P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, Gangadhara built Shiva temples there. An inscribed pillar said to come from Nagunur is dated 13 January 1171, in Rudradeva's time.

References

Sources (1)
  1. Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Dominions, 1927-28 (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, 1929, pp. 6–8, 14, plates IX–X. [Public domain]

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