On the south bank of the Krishna the great brick stupa of the Satavahana age (the Mahachaitya of Amaravati) is a weathered mound being quarried for building stone, still visited; beside it stands the Amareswara temple, an eleventh-century foundation whose earliest inscription is of 1129, one of the Pancharama shrines (the Amaravathi and Dharanikota articles, read).
The Kota chiefs hold the town as Kakatiya vassals on one reading of the sources.
Who holds it
- Title
- The Kota chief's temple at Dharanikota; no head named
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The Amaravathi article (read) gives the Amareswara temple's earliest inscription as 1129.
What it holds
- The temple and its endowments
How things stand that morning
The Kota chief's temple; the stupa is a quarry.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The Amaravathi and Dharanikota articles (read).
Primary sources for Kakatiya kingdom (Orugallu)
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts, Various (Kakatiya chancery and temple scribes), edited by P. Sreenivasachar (inscriptions of the 10th to 15th centuries; edited 1940 to 1942). The Kakatiyas of Orugallu (Warangal) are known for 1200 almost entirely from inscriptions, and this Hyderabad Archaeological Series corpus is the main printed collection. Read online
- Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions relating to the Yadava Kings of Devagiri, Various (Yadava chancery), edited by J. F. Fleet (inscriptions of the 12th and 13th centuries; edited 1876). The first collected edition of the Yadava (Seuna) records, with texts and translations, from the Indian Antiquary. Read online
- South Indian Inscriptions (Archaeological Survey of India), Various (Chola, Pandya and other chanceries and temple scribes), edited by E. Hultzsch, V. Venkayya, H. Krishna Sastri and successors (inscriptions of the 7th to 17th centuries; the series ran from 1890). The temple inscriptions printed here are the primary record of the Tamil country in 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia: Amaravathi, Guntur district (read this session)
- Wikipedia: Dharanikota (read this session)
- OMNIA board notes for this place (a lead only, checked against the sources above)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.