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Alampur

Alampuram (Hemalapuram) is a town situated in Jogulamba Gadwal district in the Indian state of Telangana. Alampura or  Hatampura  in Kanne (300) is situated very near modern Kurnool Town, within its easy reach, on the opposite bank of the river Tungabhadra which runs between the places separating them as it were, the place noted for its many peculiar architectural gopuras, is a famous Saiva centre the presiding deity being Balabrahmivara with the goddess, Jogulamba, or Yogeswari. The Tungabhadra region is the strategic place, situated on the Vengi Karnataka border and on the route between South India and the north. The Krishna-Tungabhadra doab was the meeting place and battlefield between many empires that flourished in the Deccan. The Chalukyas of Badami and Rashtrakutas of Malkhed met the Pallava of Kanchi in this region and fought a number of times, devastating the territory. Similarly, the Chalukya of Kalyani and the Cholas of the south constantly came into conflict and th...

Mancherial District History

Mancherial district was created out of Adilabad district in 2016 during the general reorganization of districts in Telangana. The district headquarters is located at Mancherial town. It is surrounded by Komaram Bheem, Nirmal, Jagtial, Peddapalli and Bhupalpally districts of Telangana and with Maharashtra state. Mancherial is said to get its name from the term ‘Manchi Revu’ as the place is on the banks of river Godavari. It is believed that later Manchi Revu was westernized as Mancherial. Mancherial is previously called as "GARMILLA".  Jurassic Period Yamanapalli or Vemanpalli Dinosaur Fossil Yamanapalli Dinosaur Fossil of Kotasaurus Yamanpalliensis, 16-foot-high (over 5 metres in height) and 14 metres in length from Jurassic age, dating back to about 160 million years was found during an excavation by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) in Yamanapalli region of Mancherial District, Telangana State, India. Negligent Telangana government has no plans for a fossil park While a ...

Runza or Runjha or Raunza or Runja

Runza  or Runjha or Raunza or Runja is a percussion musical instrument and a rare folk art from Telangana and it belongs to the Vishwakarma community, who take it as a sacred commitment.  Avajamu, Dangaramu, Veeranamu are different synonyms for Ruza. A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Runja is a two-faced drum of the medieval times. It had a uniformly cylindrical body, 13½ inches long. Each face had a diameter of 8 inches, fitted with rings over the edge. Brass ia also used in the making of Runza. Its height is about 3 or 3 1/2 feet. The upper part is covered with goats skin, eleven holes are made above and below and eleven chord are tightly tied all over so as to make a sling (utter in Telugu). The Runzas bend the instrument slantwise, press it firmly with knee and by pulling ...

Kollipaka or Kolanupaka

Kolanupaka is said to be known by different names in the past, Bimbavatipuram, Kottiyapaka, Kollihaka, Kollipaka and Kolanpak, Kollipakanadu is located in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district. Vikrama- ditya VI in 1076 who ruled for half a century in whose period Kollipaka enjoyed peaceful life . There are six inscriptions of this king in Kollipaka. During Vikramaditya VI's ( A.D. 1076-1126 ) reign , his son Somesvara governed many Mandalas of the kingdom with his headquarters at Kollipaka Kollipaka was a great military centre and Jain centre too, Kumara Tailapa constructed a Jain temple at Kollipaka . Kollipaka - 9000 Kollipaka-7000 Pembarthi  Rashtrakutas Ratta Dynasty (875-1250) Ratta dynasty was a minor Indian dynasty who ruled over the Belagavi region of modern Karnataka as a branch of Rashtrakutas and it is held by some authorities that the Rattas were Raddis ( Kan . Radderu ) . It is certain that they still claim descent from Hem Ratti , who , in their tradition, was the son of Kuda...

Jangaon District History

973 AD - 1163 AD : Western Chalukyas of Kalyani 973 AD - 997 AD : Tailapa II 997 - 1008 AD : Satyasraya 1008 - 1015 AD : Vikramaditya V 1010 AD : Bhimarasa 1010 AD : Pallagutta This inscription is on the pillar in the Museum and dated as S, 933 Sadharana falls in S. 932 and not in 933, A.D. 1010. Mentions certain Maha Samantadhipati who bore epithets Sahaja Turaga Vidyadhara and Ranamukha Bhairava. It registers the gift of flower garden and dwelling site, towards the perpetual lamp and daily offerings to the God (name lost). Bhimarasa mentioned in this record seems to be identical with samanta Kesari Bhimarasa. a feudatory of Satyasraya who held Banawasi from 1002 to 1006. 1058 AD - 1079 AD : Sankaraganda of Kandura Tummalagudem, Ramannapet Taluk.  11th century. Telugu and Kannada. This inscription is on four sides of a stone pillar of the ruined temple near Indrapalagutta. Third side is not copied, it is touching the wall. It is registered as a gift of some wetland by a ...

Nagavarma I

Name : Nagavarma I Died : 21st February, 993 AD Occupation : Poet, writer, and grammarian  Notable Work : Karnataka Kadambari and Chandombhudhi Nagavarma I was a noted Jain writer and poet in the Kannada language. His two important works, both of which are extant, are Karnātaka Kādambari, a champu (mixed prose-verse metre) based romance novel and an adaptation of Bana's Sanskrit Kādambari, and Chandōmbudhi (also spelt Chhandombudhi, lit, "Ocean of prosody" or "Ocean of metres"), the earliest available work on Kannada prosody which Nāgavarma I claims would command the respect even of poet Kalidasa Jain Brāhmans are the Brahmins or Brāhmans who follow Jainism. Nagavarma I was patronised by King Rakkasa Ganga (also called Rachamalla V, 986–999 CE) of the Western Ganga Dynasty. Nagavarma - l in his Kādambari states that he received horses from Bhoja which were imported from Kalinga, Kāmbhōja and Bahlika countries. Aśvasāhaṇi was the officer who looked after the hor...

Sangareddy District History

Sangareddy district, is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. This district contains a part of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region. The district shares boundaries with Medak, Medchal, Vikarabad, Kamareddy and Rangareddy districts and with the state boundary of Karnataka. Sangareddy District is bifurcated from Medak district according to G.O.M.S 239; Dt: 11-10-2016 by Government of Telangana. Medak district is divided into three districts. They are Sangareddy District Medak District, Siddipet District Sangareddy Municipality was constituted in 1954 and is classified as a first grade municipality with 31 election wards. The jurisdiction of the civic body is spread over an area of 13.69 km (5.29 sq mi). Economy IIT Hyderabad was established in 2008 near to Sangareddy at Kandi Mandal. And also JNTUH College of Engineering Sultanpur at Sultanpur which is near by the city has been established recently. Road Kosavala or Kasavula-70 which corresponds to the present day combined districts ...