Panagal

Panagal also called Panugal, Panugallu or Panagallu or Panagallupura is located in Nalgonda district and part of Eruva region in old days.

c.1040 - c.1065 : Eruva Bhima I
In the Eruva line, Bhima the lord of Phanugallu-pura, was born for the rejoicing of all.
Subordinate to Western Chalukya King Somesvara I (1042 - 1068).
Granted the lordship of Cheraku together with its 12 villages to Cheraku Chief Kata I.

c.1065 - 1077 : Tonda I son of Eruva Bhima I
Subordinate to Western Chalukya King Somesvara I (1042 - 1068).
Eruva Tonda , apparently , was a military commander in the army of Dandanayaka Mahapradhani Anantapalayya. 

1076 AD : Jayasimha III Governor
A.D. 1076 introduces the kings subordinate Bhuvanaikamalla-Vira-Nolamba with epithets Vira-Pallavanaya, Pallavakula-tilaka, Amoghavakya and Kanchipuravaresvara as governing Nolambavadi, Panungalnadu and Banavasi-desa. We know that these epithets were borne by the kings younger brother Jayasimha III who is called Trailokyamalla-Vira-Nolamba in the records of his father Trailokyamalla-Somesvara I. Our inscription credits him with the governorship of Banavasi-desa and Panungal-nadu in addition to Nolambhavadi. The inscription also reveals the name of his queen Maladevi.

May 8, 1077 AD : Kollipaka - Mahamandalesvara Eruva Tondarasar, a Telugu-Choda chief sets up an inscription at the same place in Saka.999, Ptnga|a Jyestha su. 13, (A.D. 1077, May 8) (No. 13) to lecordhts gift of perpetual lamps to Somesvara Deva of Kollipaka, where in no reference is made to any overlord.

1077 AD - 1091 AD : Bhimachoda II son of Tonda I
Bhima Choda the lord of Panagallu in Nalgonda

1088 AD - 1097 AD Tonda II
1088 AD - 1091 AD : Ruling Kolanupaka
Koduru near Mahbubnagar became their secondary capital. They adopted the titles Kodur pravaresvara and Kandūri-Chōḍa representing their new capital and additional fief respectively.

1091 AD : An unpublished epigraph from Panugallu dated C.V. 15 (1091) set up by Bhima's eldest son Tondaya registers some vrittis granted by him to a brahman who carried the ashes of his father Kandūru Bhima Choda to Ganga for immersing them in that holy river.

24th December, A.D. 1088 and 25th December, A.D. 1091 : Kolanupaka, Bhuvanagiri 
Vikramaditya VI and Tondaya-Chola-Maharaja.
Both the inscriptions A and B, which belong to the rule of Tribhuvanamalla (i.e. Vikramaditya VI). refer to the Telugu-Choda chief Tondaya-Chola-maharaja of the Kanduru branch. They are dated, apart from other details, in the Chalukya Vikrama years 13 and 16 respectively. Two more inscriptions of this chief bearing dates Chalukya-Vikrama year 12, Prabhava, Uttarayana-sankranti and year 16 of the same era, Prajapati, solar eclipse respectively, are found in Kolanupaka itself. Both the inscriptions, like the inscriptions under study, refer themselves to the rule of Tribhuvanamalla suggesting the feudatory status of the Telugu Choda chief under the imperial Chalukya ruler. Thus in all we have four records of Tondaya-Chola maharaja, dates ranging from the Chalukya Vikrama years 12-16 (1088-92 A.D.)

1092-93 AD : Koppole, Nalgonda.
This inscription, engraved on a slab lying near a tank opposite the Muthyalamma temple, is in Telugu language and Characters and is dated in the Chalukya Vikrama era (year not specified) Angirasa (A.D. 1092-93). It registers a gift of land in the village Jalapattu for the upkeep of the lake at Kroproli and for the maintenance of the Rudresvaradevara-satra, on the occasion of Uttarayan-Sankranti, by Kanduri-Tondaya-Cholamaharaju. The gift was entrusted to Chilyakamti-Anamtasaka-Pandita.

Tonda II has 3 sons Udatiya, Bhima and Gokarna

1097 AD - 1104 AD : Mallikarjunachoda brother of Tonda II
general dandanayaka Rudramayyanayaka
1098 AD :  A number of newly-discovered inscriptions refer to the political conditions prevailing in the twelfth-thirteenth centuries A.D. Among these, mention may be made of the one from Vellala: dated in Saka 1020 (A.D. 1098) and written in Sanskrit language it refers to Mahamandalesvara Mallikarjuna of Kanduri Choda family and traces the genealogy of the family to Karikala and Eruva Bhima. 

1104 AD - 1116 AD : Bhimarasa
15th May A.D. 1116 : Panugallu
States while the Chalukya emperor Tribhuvanamalladeva ruling kingdom of the earth, Bhimarasa, a relation of Kanduru Somaladevi installed Gangadevi and Gangesvara and submitted to the emperor who was camping in the Uppayana (Vidu) Kollipaka, that he should consider this as his own work of charity (dharma). It is stated that, the emperor having complied with Bhimarasa's request, made gifts, of land Bhatti-Koduru, Namagallu, Bikkikere etc, included in Bhimavara-12 offerings of Gangesvaradeva after washing feet of Vagisvaradeva.

1116 AD - 1128 AD : Kandur Gokarnachoda I son of Tonda II
Gokarna is ruling from Panugal.
10th March, 1122 AD : Panugal, Nalgonda District
Hail ! in the Calukya-Vikrama year 1043, (being the cyclic) year Subhakrt, in the month of Phalguna, on Amavasya, on Friday, on the occasion of the Solar Eclipse, the glorious Maha-mandalesvara king Gokarna-Coda, washed the feet of Gavaliya Bhimana Peggada, son-in-law of Kammana-peggada, and gave away after pouring water (i.e. in the formal way), the lordship of Maduvulu of 30 badi of Kukkudamu with the asta-bhoga rights.

11th August 1124 AD : Panagallu
This inscription is on a stone pillar lying in the Pachala Someshwara Temple. Damaged and fragmentary. Records that, on the occasion of Surya grahana in the year Krodhi, S.1046, Mailambika, wife of Tondanripa who had three sons viz., Udayaditya, Bhima and Gokarna granted an agrahara called Choda Bhima Narayanapuram to 108 Brahmanas. Though the month, tithi, and vara (day in week) are not given, the date of the inscription can be calculated on the basis of the solar eclipse, of which there was only one in the year given in the record. It corresponds to Monday, 11th August, A.D. 1124.

27th November 1127 AD : Mamillapalli
This inscription is in the temple of Narasimha Swami. The record is in two parts. The first part states that certain Bhupala Navisetti devotee of Narasimha with the consent of Gundaya Peddana purchased 40 vrittis in Mavindlapalli and 1 vritti belonging to Gundadeva and donated it for the observance of daily worship and naivedya of Sri Narasimha deva. The second part states that Hari hara dasa kheyideva dandanayaka subordinate of Kanduri Gokarna deva Choda maharaja granted 6 puttis of land (chenu) of Mangallu, seed yielding velivolamu in Pomi reddi Cheruvu and marttars to the daily naivedya of Narasimhadeva.

10th June, 1128 AD : Gattuthimmam
This inscription is on a left pillar in the Siva temple. Records a grant of 2 rukas of Siddhaya to the God Ramesvara deva of Tummeta to maintain perpetual lamp by a certain Pilabache nayaka probably a samanta of Gokarnadeva Choda maharaja for the prosperity of the king.

1128 AD - 1131 AD : Sridevi Tondaya was the son of Udayaditya I, elder brother of Gokarna and Bhima Chōda . 
1128 AD : Anamala, Miryalaguda Taluk.
Belonging to the same period are two epigraphs from Anamala in Miryalaguda Taluk. They belong to the Kanduri Choda family which paid allegiance to the Western Chalukyas of Kalyani. One of them, dated Saka 1050 (A.D. 1128), was issued by Sridevi Tondaya and is silent about the overlord, suggesting an independant status.

This inscription is on a stone pillar set up in the fields towards the west of the village. The inscription records that Mahamandalesvara Kanduri Sridevi Tondaya of Kasyapa-gotra, Karikalanvaya, and solar race, the lord of Kodurupura granted the prabhutva (lordship) of Alamula included in Cheraku-70 (region) with ashtabhogatejas-svamyatas to Ajjala Erayana- peggada. The record, on the other three sides contains Telugu verses in Kanda and one in Champakamala metres, stating that certain Prolemaraja-amarya obtained (from the king) vrittis consisting of Chagamari-12 and Dodidorti-12 and other things. The Champakamala verse states the various royal insignia obtained by Proleyamatya which include, adapamu (betel bag),andalamu (palanquin), (royal) seats kamchagattu (.............), vichchadiya (permission to pay royal visits?), dharalu (swords), savadi-samkhulu (sounding conch shells), bherulu (beating drums), gamgu-gondamu (......), godugulu (umbrellas), pili (elephant), barha-kunta (peacock- fans?) and kham-vitanamu (...).

The last verse states that Adapa-Erayan-peggade obtained the prabhutva (lordship) from Tondaraja of the line of Jata Choda. From this record we understand that the Choda family of Kanduru belonged to the line of Jata Choda of Eruva as said in the Vollala inscription of Mallikarjuna Choda (Ep. Andhrica IV p.26). Secondly, Sridevi Tondaya, the donor of this record is not properly identifiable among the known members of the Kanduri Choda chiefs. Thirdly, it is not known how Proleyaraja-amatya and Erayana peggada were related to each other.

1131 AD : Adavi-Devulapalli, Miryalaguda Taluk
This inscription is on a slab lying in front of the Chennakesava temple. Records the installation of the deity Ramaramana at the place called Bauddham situated on the bank of the river Krishna by mahamandalesvara Kandari Tondaya-chada, who is described as Koduri- puravaradhisvara and belonging to Kasyapa-gotra and Karikalanvaya. While he was ruling from his capital Panugallur over Kandara nadu Vinuribada-nadu and Kondapalli-nadu, his minister Gopati son of Medama granted two khandugas of hand and taxes (sunkas) for maintaining perpetual lamp to the above deity.

1136 AD : Govinda
Prola II, at the behest of King Somesvara, invaded Kandurunadu to put an end to the rebellion. Prola attacked the general Govinda-damdesa, who had received Panugallu from Kumara Tailapa after Gokarna was killed. Upon defeating and killing Govinda-damdesa, Prola restored Panugallu to Udaya Choda, the son of Gokarna. Prola's campaign into Panugallu seems to have occurred sometime between 1128 and 1136.

Govindaraja or Govinda danḍesa is not settled . There was a Govinda , an early contemporary of Prola II , a nephew ( sister's son ) of Anantapāla daṇḍanāyaka , the famous general of Vikramaditya VI . Govinda danḍanayaka of Kondapalli and Bhima Chōla III seem to have extended their support to the revolting prince Tailapa .

1136 AD - 1176 AD : Kandur Udayachoda II Son of Gokarnachoda I
General : Arasalu
King Udayanachoda, who was ruling a vast kingdom comprising 1,100 villages from Panugal in the present Nalgonda district, had expanded his kingdom as far as the present Mahabubnagar district, holding the strategic Krishna River belt under his control.

25th December A.D. 1136 : Peruru, Miryalaguda Taluk, Nalgonda District.
This inscription is set up before the mukhamandapa of the swayambhu Someswara temple. Records the gift of land by madalika Gunadya, an officer under the chief for conducting the offerings and worship on the day of Uttarayana-Sankranthi. The land was measured by a rod called ghada-marturu to the deity Kesavadeva installed by Yajnavalki Kesava-bhatta.

Sirikonda inscription dated A.D.1149 states that, Mahamandalika ketaya of the Pallava lineage obtained kondapallinadu by means of charter from Mahamandaleshwar Koduru Udayana Choda maharaja who was ruling Sirikonda-rajya, made the gift of lands and tolls on various articles of merchandise to the Gods namely adjusted in to the God’s hundi.

An inscription on a stone slab dating back to 1158 CE has been discovered and reported by the villagers of Vavikollu in Gundlapally mandal of Nalgonda district.The orders were passed on a Sunday, which was Pournami (full moon night) of lunar eclipse on August 10, 1158, when the King had gifted his Raj Purohit Sarvadeva Somayajulu a village named ‘Bodavipparru.’ The inscriptions stated that the village was exempted from any form of taxation and that Somayajulu could enjoy the land as per his wishes.

1176 AD -  1239 AD : Cheraku Bolla II 
1202 AD : Lord of Panugallu, Uppunututa

1239 AD - 1258 AD : Kayastha Ganagaya Sahini
Capital : Kroccherla (Eruva-73 region)
Kayastha Chief Ganagaya Sahini was ruling the region extending from Panugallu in Nalgonda District to Valluru in the Cuddapah district and has the title of Gandapendara.

1250 AD : Led a military expedition into the Seuna kingdom in the west at the command of his master Ganapatideva and made king Kannara or Damodara flee from battle field and was made the head of the seventy two branches of administration of the kingdom.

1254 AD: Encounter with Vaidumba chief Rakkasaganga, was ruling Marjavadi and Pottapinadu regions

1253 AD : An epigraph dated Saka 1175 (A.D. 1253) while mentioning the name of the Kayastha
chief Gangayasahini, mentions his father Sri Dhanava and grandfather Sri Dhasuva who were not known previously. The location of this inscription confirms the statement made in other records of Gangayasahini that his territory extended from Panugallu (in District Nalgonda) to Marjavadi (in District Cuddapah). The Kayasthas served as subordinate chief under the Kakatiyas.

1258 AD - 1266 AD : Kayastha Jannigadeva (Gangayasahani sisters eldest son) 
Credited with the title of “right hand of Ganapatideva” and granted the village Pondaiur to SantativadetRai

1266 AD - 1269 AD : Sarangapani Deva son of the Seuna king Singhana
1267 AD : Inscription of Sarangapani Deva in the temple of Chaya Somanatha at Panugal of Nalgonda district dated 1267 A.D. which registers a gift of land to the temple by Sarangapanideva son of Seuna king Singhana a subordinate of the Kakatiya Manma Rudradeva which is the same as Rudramadevi. Evidently Sarangapanideva who had seized the fort of Panugal realised that it would be impossible for him to exercise independence without accepting the suzerainty of the Kakatiya queen. In a similar manner it is possible that other Yadava feudatories who might have been exercising control over the Raichur doab might also have accepted the overlordship of the Kakatiyas.

1269 AD - 1270 AD : Gandapendara Jannigadevaraja
1269 AD ; Durgi, Palnad Taluk, Guntur District.
This inscription is on a slab in the temple of Gopalaswami, dated S. 1191 (Sukla). States that, while Rudrama-Mahadevi, the pattoddhati (?) of Gaṇapatideva, was ruling at Orugallu and her servant Gandapendara Jannigadevaraja was governing the country from Panungallu to Marjavada, karagam Namaya consecrated the image of Gopinatha at Dugya in Pallinadu and made grants of land and assigned certain taxes for its worship.

1270 AD - 1289 AD : Cheraku Mallikarjuna Nayaka son of Bolla 
26th December, A.D. 1271 : Irvin, Kalwakurthy
This inscription is on a pillar in the midst of the village. This inscription records a gift of land to God Indresvara by mahasamanta Vavilala Rudraya reddi for the merit of his sister Rudrasani. This inscription refers to the fact that there were matrimonial alliances between Cheraku and Vavilala families

Immadi Mallikarjuna nayaka son of mallikarujuna nayaka who was the minister of the king, made the gift of vrittis of wet land behind the Udayadity- samudra, arranged five special canal facility to that big land.

Nov 27, 1289 AD Chandupatla Inscription - Chandupatla Village , Nakrekal Mandal, Nalgonda District: As per this inscription, His nephew, Ambadeva declared his independence from Kakatiyas and Rudrama Devi personally led the army to crush the rebellion. It looks like Rudrama Devi died in her attempt to crush the rebellion, most probably killed, along with a General Mallikarjuna Nayudu on 27 November 1289, but there was no mention of the reason and the place of her death.

1289 AD - 1323 AD : Cheraku Immadi Mallikarjuna Nayaka son of Mallikarjuna Nayaka
16th May A.D. 1290. Panugallu.
This inscription is on a pillar in the compound of Chhaya-Somesvara temple. Records that, while Kakatiya Kumara Rudradeva was ruling the kingdom of the world, his subordinate Immadi Mallikarjuna Nayaka, son of Mallikarjuna Nayaka who bore the titles nissanka-Vira and Rayasthapanacharya and grandson of Bollasenapati, the minister of the king, made the gift of some virittis of wetland behind the Udayaditya-samudra for the anga and ranga-bhogas of Chhaya-Somanatha of Panugallu so that merit might accrue to the king. The inscription also describes the genealogy of the royal family beginning with Kakatiya Ganapati. His son was Rudradeva (Rudramba), whose daughter's son was the king Rudradeva.

1325 AD - 1361 AD : Recherla Singama nayaka-I

1361 AD - 1384 AD : Recherla Mada Nayaka I

1384 AD - 1410 AD : Vedagiri I

1397 AD : Immadu Bukka or Bukkaraya II reign Harihara II Sangama Dynasty of Vijayanagara
Son : Anantha
30th December, A.D. 1397 : Panugallu, Kollapur 
The record refers to the reign of Harihara II, son of Bukka of the Sangama dynasty of Vijayanagara. The object of the inscription is to record the conquest of Panugallu by the Dviguna-Bukka. The details of the date of the conquest are given as Saka 1319 (expressed by chronogram), Isvara, Pausha (Sahasya), su. 11(Sambhor=dina), Sunday, corresponding to the 30th December 1397 A.D.

The epigraph is important in that it records the conquest of Panagulla in Saka 1319 by Imamadi-Bukka during the time of Harihara II and mentions for the first time Ananta, the son of Immadi-Bukka during the time of Harihara II and mentions for the first time, the son of Immadi-Bukka.

1424 AD - 1446 AD : Deva Raya II of Sangama Dynasty of Vijayanagara 
1424 AD : Dated in Saka 1346 during the rule of Devaraya, another epigraph records the construction of the temple of Mukti-Ramesvara by Devanarayana, belonging to a Brahmana family from Kasmira, who was the governor of the fort and who claims to have destroyed the army of Firuz Shah.


Ibrahim Qutb Shah
1551 AD : Sayyid Shah Mir Isfahani, son of Sayyad Ahmad Tababai
15th September, 1551 A.D: His Honour (lit. His Refuge), the wielder of authority, Sayyid Shah Mir Isfahani, son of Sayyad Ahmad Tababai (may he be blessed !) rebuilt the embankment of the Pangal tank, which had fallen out of repair through age, and spent money (on this work) from recompense in the next life. The person who worked hard and supervised 2 Sluices : an artificial passage for water fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow.103 (the repairs) was Rahmat Ullah, son of Abdul Karim Khwan Shahi (?). The embankment was breached from …… to the boundary of the river Krishna and water flowed from the tank 
through the breach (of the dyke) to the town of Pangal………. The share of Musalmans from (the lands of) the tank…….. remain

1571 AD : The Persian version of a bilingual epigraph from Pangal, recording the repairs of a dam
etc., which was noticed earlier, was re-examined. It was found to contain the date A.H. 978. and Shuhur 971 (A.D. 1571) and not A.H. 958. It was also found to contain the additional information that all the lands from the embankment of (the river) Mushi in Induparal (Yindupukela of the Telugu version) to the bank of the Krishna river (irrigated) by the canals, tanks and ponds are subject to dastband (levy) revertible to qasba Pangal and (from the revenue cess of the lands irrigated) by the dam the Muslims and the king and Hindus would have some share.

Muhammad Quli Padshah. 
1602 AD : Narasanayaka
1602 AD : Mangalapalli.
While Mohmmad Quli Padshah was ruling the kingdom and Narasanayaka of Panugallu was administering the Nalgonda Faujdar Mokhasa, the latter's servant Chama Venkaṭaya son of Sarvaya caused the well to be dug near the Siva - Kesava (temple), and installed the Vinayaka pillar and a garden. The garden is exempt from ari and koru. Certain Kasa Ainavolu Potana is said to have made the Vinayaka pillar.

Panugal-1000

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