Skip to content

Kusumanchi Inscribed Column

The Kusumanchi column is a short square column with a Kannada inscription on all four faces. The column stands about twelve miles west of Khammam.

Period
Undated. A Kakatiya inscription of 1260 stands in the same village
Location
17.2263° N, 79.9668° EWarning: approximate

Source of the position: Wikidata Q3420749 (a point for the village, because the monument itself is not mapped)

Condition
The column was standing in its original place at the time of the 1900 survey.
A square stone pillar inscribed on its faces, topped by a carved crescent moon and sun and a pyramidal cap, standing on a paved platform

A four-sided inscribed pillar in front of the Mukkanteswara temple at Kusumanchi, with the sun and crescent moon carved at the top. Whether this is the Kannada-inscribed column of the 1900 list has not been verified.

Photo: P. Madhusudan, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Detail

  • The 1900 survey records a short square column with a Kannada inscription on its four faces.ASI 1900
  • The column is reached from Khammam by way of Madalapilli, Talampid and Jirlachiru.ASI 1900
  • A Kakatiya inscription of 1260 stands before the Ganapesvara temple at Kusumanchi.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023
  • Kannada and bilingual Telugu–Kannada inscriptions also occur elsewhere in Kakatiya Telangana, for example at Pillalamarri in 1195 and Nidigonda in 1219.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023

Also recorded as

  • Kusumanchi
  • Kushumanchi
  • Kusumanchi pillar

Sources