Bandri Gateway
A gateway pillar inside Warangal Fort carries an inscription that names Kapilendra, the Gajapati king of Orissa. The gateway is not yet securely identified with any surviving gate.
- Period
- Kakatiya, with a Gajapati (Orissa) inscription of the 15th century
- Location
- 17.9572° N, 79.6144° EWarning: approximate
Source of the position: Wikidata Q7968796 (the centre of Warangal Fort, because the building itself is not mapped)
- Condition
- Unidentified.
Detail
- Inscription no. 10 in the 1900 catalogue stands on a pillar of the Bandri gateway of the fort and names Kapilendra.ASI 1900
- Kapilendra was the Gajapati king of Orissa. A related inscription records that his son Ambira captured Warangal fort on 2 February 1460.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023Nizam’s Archaeological Reports 1920–31
- Two Gajapati records of 2 February 1460 survive at the fort gates. D. C. Sircar placed Ambira's record on the eastern gate and Raghudeva's on the western gate, locally called the fifth gate.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023
- P. Sreenivasachar disagreed and placed Ambira's record on the stone gateway on the western side. The 1900 survey spells the king's name Kapilendra, as Ambira's record does. The Bandri gateway was probably the gate carrying Ambira's record.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023ASI 1900
Also recorded as
- Bandri
- Bandri gate
- Bandri gateway
- Bandri gudi