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Upparapalli

Village in Warangal district where a Telugu pillar inscription of 1236, from Ganapatideva's reign, records the temple endowments of Kataya, son of Recherla Rudra's minister Raje-nayaka.

Inside a temple hall: a dark doorway with pierced screens on both sides, under carved beams and a ceiling of projecting brackets, between carved pillars.
Inside a temple hall: a dark doorway with pierced screens on both sides, under carved beams and a ceiling of projecting brackets, between carved pillars. · G. Yazdani (photographs: Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions) (opens in a new tab) · Public domain

The temple and its pillar

A square pillar stands in front of the main temple at Upparapalli (Uparpalli). It carries a Telugu inscription dated 24 January 1236. In it Kataya, son of Raje-nayaka, the Brahman minister of the general Recherla Rudra, records lands he gave to the temple with the sanction of Ganapatideva.12 The 1956 Corpus places the village in Warangal district.2 See the Upparapalli pillar inscription.

Survey

G. Yazdani, of the Nizam’s Archaeological Department, reported in 1915–16 that he had copied the “important Kakatya inscriptions of Pakhal, Ramappa and Uparpalli”. He planned to survey the monuments of Pakhal, Palampet, Borlapalli and Uparpalli, which he called important political and religious centres of the Kakatiya period.34 He visited the temples at Palampet and Uparpalli in December 1916 and took ink impressions of all their inscriptions. L. D. Barnett published them in 1919.5

Footnotes

  1. Barnett, Inscriptions at Palampet and Uparpalli (1919), p. 14 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  2. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (1956), p. 166, No. Wg. 19 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

  3. Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Highness the Nizam’s Dominions, 1915-16 (1917), p. 10 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  4. Annual Report of the Archaeological Department … 1915-16 (1917), p. 12 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  5. L. D. Barnett (ed.), Inscriptions at Palampet and Uparpalli (1919), p. v (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

Photos

Monuments

Upparapalli Temple

c. 1236 CE

A ruined triple-shrined Shiva temple at Uparpalli (Upparapalli) in the old Karimnagar district. A square pillar in front of it carries a Telugu inscription of 24 January 1236, in the reign of the Kakatiya king Ganapatideva. It records lands given to the god by Kataya, son of a minister of the general Recherla Rudra. Henry Cousens thought the temple was of the same age as those at Hanamkonda and Palampet.

Inscriptions

Upparapalli pillar inscription of Kataya

1236 CE

A Telugu verse and prose inscription of 24 January 1236 on a pillar at Upparapalli near Warangal. It records the temple gifts of Kataya, son of Recherla Rudra's Brahman minister Raje-nayaka, made with Ganapatideva's approval. It names Recherla Rudra's parents and Raje-nayaka's campaigns from Bhokkera to Daksharama.

References

Sources (3)
  1. L. D. Barnett (ed.), Inscriptions at Palampet and Uparpalli (Hyderabad Archaeological Series, No. 3) (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, 1919, v, 14. [Public domain]
  2. Archaeological Department, H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Highness the Nizam's Dominions, 1915-16 (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, 1917, pp. 10, 12. [Public domain]
  3. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of Andhra Pradesh, Part III (opens in a new tab), Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1956, pp. 166. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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