Teki

Teki is a village in the Godavari delta. In 1901 it was in the Ramachandrapuram taluk of Godavari district.¹ V. Rangacharya’s list of 1919 accordingly gives its copper-plate grant under that taluk.²

The Teki plates

The Collector of Godavari wrote a letter on 30 April 1901 about the plates.¹ He reported that Kodi Dosigadu “of Teki” had found them about two months earlier, while working in his field.¹ Hultzsch added that the village is No. 122 on the Madras survey map of the taluk.¹

The plates are an edict of Chodaganga, surnamed Rajaraja, the son of Kulottunga I and viceroy of Vengi.¹² The edict is dated in the 17th year of the reign.¹² It gives honours at weddings to the Teliki families, hereditary servants of the Eastern Chalukyas.¹² See Teki plates of Rajaraja-Chodaganga.

The Teki channel

Henry Morris’s account of the Godavari district (1878) describes the irrigation of the delta before the anicut (dam). According to Morris, the old channels drew water from the river only for about fifty days in the year.³ He wrote that “the channels on the eastern side were the Tulayya Bhaga, the Tsoppella, the Teki, and the Muskapalli channels”.³

Morris also records the scheme of channels planned for the anicut.⁴ In it, the Teki channel took the drainage of the lands watered by the Tsoppella and Tulayya Bhaga.⁴ It carried its surplus water into the Coringa river.⁴

Footnotes

1. E. Hultzsch, “Teki Plates of Rajaraja-Chodaganga”, Epigraphia Indica VI (1900–01), p. 334 and note 2 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. V. Rangacharya, A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, Vol. II (1919), p. 745, Ramachandrapuram taluk, No. 364 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. Henry Morris, A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District (1878), p. 141 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩²

4. Morris, Godavery District (1878), p. 144 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³