Tadikonda

Tadikonda is the village that B. V. Krishna Rao identified in 1936 with Tandikonda, the chief village given in the Tandikonda grant of Amma II. He placed it in the Guntur taluk, about eight miles north of the district headquarters.¹ The Eastern Chalukya king gave it, with three other villages, to the god Uma-Mahesvara in the temple that Vijayaditya II had built at Vijayawada (then Bezwada). The income was to maintain the temple, its offerings and music, and a feeding house.² The plates themselves were found near Oruvakallu in the Sattenapalle taluk.³

The boundaries

Krishna Rao found that two of the tanks named among the boundaries of Tandikonda, Chayita and Bhimasamudra, still existed. He took Chayita to be the old name of a large tank of three or four square miles beside the village, which irrigated a wide area. On the bank of Bhimasamudra was a large mound called Bhimalingamu-dibba, with extensive ruins of a Shiva temple. Lamu, on the southern boundary, lay two miles south of the village.¹

He placed Tandikonda in the Gudla-Kanderuvadi district, which he explained as the part of the Kanderuvadi district round Amaravati, named for its temples.²¹

Footnotes

1. Krishna Rao, “Tandikonda Grant of Ammaraja II” (1936), pp. 165–166 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Krishna Rao, “Tandikonda Grant of Ammaraja II” (1936), p. 163 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩²

3. B. V. Krishna Rao, “Tandikonda Grant of Ammaraja II”, Epigraphia Indica XXIII (1935–36), p. 161 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩