Rayaparti

The village and its inscription

Rayaparti lies about 20 miles from Warangal on the road to Khammam. Outside the village, near a temple of Anjaneya, stand the ruins of a fort wall.¹ A damaged Sanskrit inscription on a slab there is dated Saka 1169 (1247; Saka is an Indian way of counting years). It names a king Rudra who had died, his successors Surya and Beta, a lady Suramba of their family, and a king Mahadeva.¹² The 1956 Corpus took this Rudra and Beta to be Kakatiyas. The state catalogue of 1964 and the 2016 Warangal district volume read the record differently and leave the family unnamed.¹²³ See the Rayaparti fragment.

Footnotes

1. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (1956), pp. 159–160, No. Wg. 17 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Gajjala Vasanta Lakshmi (ed.), Epigraphia Telanganica, vol. 2 (2023), pp. 245–246, No. 220. Paraphrased. ↩ ↩²

3. Epigraphia Telanganica, vol. 2 (2023), pp. 372–373, Indeterminate inscriptions No. 35. Paraphrased. ↩