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Neddigonda Temple

Neddigonda (Nidigonda) Temple is a triple-shrined temple about thirty miles from Hanamakonda on the Hyderabad road. An inscription of 1219 records that Kundamamba, a sister of Ganapati Deva, built it as the Kundeshwara temple.

Period
Kakatiya, 1219 CE
Date
1219 CE
Commissioned by
Kundamamba, sister of Ganapati Deva
Location
17.7351° N, 79.2289° EWarning: approximate

Source of the position: Wikidata Q13001123 (a point for the village, because the monument itself is not mapped)

Condition
Ruinous.
Ruined walls of a stone temple at Nidigonda standing on a moulded base, the superstructure lost, beside a tree under a blue sky

Ruins of the three-shrined Shiva temple at Nidigonda, known locally as Kummarigullu. The temple is taken here to be the Neddigonda of the 1900 list. The walls stand on their moulded base, but the superstructure is gone.

Photo: P. Madhusudan, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Detail

  • The 1900 survey describes a triple-shrined temple in the style of the great temple at Hanamakonda, but smaller and far more ruinous.ASI 1900
  • An inscription of 1219 records that Kundamamba, a sister of Ganapati Deva, built the temple and named it Kundeshwara.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023
  • Epigraphia Telanganica ranks the sculpture of the temple with that of the Thousand Pillar Temple and Ramappa Temple.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023
  • Parabrahma Sastry discusses the carved pillars and ceilings of the Nidigonda temple.Parabrahma Sastry 1978

Also recorded as

  • Neddigonda
  • Nedigonda
  • Nidigonda
  • Nidigonda temple

Sources