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Patancheru

Town near Hyderabad, in the old Medak district of Telangana. A Kannada inscription there records a grant made on the day of the coronation of the Western Chalukya king Somesvara III in February 1127. P. B. Desai took it to identify Patancheru with Pottalakere. J. F. Fleet had listed Pottalakere among the minor capitals of Jayasimha II and placed it in the Bellary district.

An inscription at Patancheru is numbered Hd. 1 in P. Sreenivasachar’s collection of the Kannada inscriptions of the Telangana districts.12 It records a grant to the astrologer Nanneya Bhatta at Chintamanipura of Pottalakere, made on the day of the coronation of the Western Chalukya king Somesvara III.12 P. B. Desai dated that day to 20 February 1127.12

Desai concluded that the record shows that modern Patancheru is Pottalakere, an early Chalukya capital.12 See the Patancheru inscription.

In 1896 J. F. Fleet named Pottalakere as one of the minor capitals mentioned in the records of Jayasimha II.3 He identified it with Dannayakanakere in the Bellary district.3

Footnotes

  1. P. B. Desai, introduction to P. Sreenivasachar, Kannada Inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series 3, 1961), p. 4, No. 9 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Desai, Kannada Inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh (1961), p. 5, No. 9 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased except for the short phrase quoted. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. J. F. Fleet, “Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts”, Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency I, pt. II (1896), p. 437 and note 5 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

People

Somesvara III

c. 1126–1138 CE

Western Chalukya king, called Bhulokamalla, who reigned from 1126 to 1138. He is credited with the encyclopaedic Sanskrit work Manasollasa. As Prince Somesvara he governed the Kollipake province from Kolanupaka in Telangana, where a pillar of 1125 celebrates his victory over the lord of Trikalinga. An inscription at Patancheru records grants made on the day of his coronation, 20 February 1127.

Inscriptions

Patancheru inscription of Somesvara III

1127 CE

A Kannada inscription at Patancheru, near Hyderabad, of the reign of the Western Chalukya king Bhulokamalla Somesvara III. It records a grant to the astrologer Nanneya Bhatta, made on the day of the king's coronation. P. B. Desai dated that day to 20 February 1127, Chalukya-Vikrama year 51. Desai took the record to identify Patancheru with Pottalakere, a minor Chalukya capital that J. F. Fleet had placed in the Bellary district.

References

Sources (2)
  1. Dr. P. SREENIVASACHAR, M.A., Ph. D. (London) & Prof. P. B. DESAI, M.A., Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series No. 3. KANNADA INSCRIPTIONS OF ANDHRA PRADESH (opens in a new tab), 1961, pp. 4–5. P. B. Desai's summary of No. 9 (Hd. 1); paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  2. J. F. Fleet, R. G. Bhandarkar and others (Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency), Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part II: History of the Konkan, Dakhan and Southern Maratha Country (opens in a new tab), Government Central Press, Bombay, 1896, pp. 437. [Public domain]

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