Kammanadu

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Kammanadu

Kammanadu (or Kamma-nadu, also Kamma-rashtra) is a historical region in the

Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It consisted of parts of the present day Guntur and Prakasam
districts.

According to historian and geographer K. Iswara Dutt, Kammanadu consisted of the

Gundlakamma river in the south and the Bay of Bengal in the east.[1] The erstwhile Vinukonda taluk and the Chirala taluk are also often included, which are anyway indicated by the boundary at the Gundlakamma river.[2][3]

Etymology

According to one theory, Kammanadu derived its name from the Gundlakamma river, which is a prominent river between the

Penna rivers in coastal Andhra.[4] "Kamma" in this context means a stream or river.[5] According to another theory, Kammanadu was the region between Gundlakamma and Pērakamma (the "big river", perhaps the Krishna river).[6] However, the Tenali and Repalle taluks of the Guntur district, closer to the Krishna river, are referred to as Velanadu. They are not generally regarded as part of Kammanadu.[3] The modern town of Guntur is likely to have been at the edge of Kammanadu.[6]

History

Between the seventh and thirteenth centuries AD, Kammanadu was ruled by a branch of the

Telugu Cholas with their capital at Konidena (which is now a small village).[7]

Ethnicity

The people that emigrated from Kammanadu were referred to as belonging to a kammakula (kamma family) . Prominent among them were the general Vennaya-bhatta of the

Kannada, was referred to as a kamma-brahmana.[9][10][11]

The prominent Kamma community of present-day is believed to be derived from the kamma-kapus, i.e., Kapus (agricultural families) of Kammanadu.[12]

Inscriptions

Various historic inscriptions referring to the region have been found. A reference to Karmarashtram appears in the inscriptions of the Ikshvaku king Madhariputra Purushadatta (3rd century A.D) found at Bethavolu (Jaggayyapeta).[13] Later ones include the inscription of the Pallava king Kumara Vishnu II, son of Buddha Varma found in the village of Chendaluru, and one of the Eastern Chalukya king Mangi Yuvaraja (627-696 AD) written in Sanskrit.[citation needed]

In the inscriptions ascribed to period from the 3rd to the 11th century AD, the words Kammarashtram, Kammaratham, Kammakaratham, Karmarashtram, Karmakaratham, Karmakarashtram and Kammakarashtram were used interchangeably. The subsequent inscriptions of Telugu Chodas and

Kakatiyas mentioned Kammanadu; for example, the Konidena inscription of Tribhuvana Malla from 1146.[citation needed
]

Some of the important inscriptions relating to Kammanadu are:

  • Epigraphica Indica, Vol VIII, pp. 233–236 (Chandaluru copper plate inscription of Kumara Vishnu)
  • Epigraphica Indica, Vol XV, pp. 249–252 (Ongole copper plate inscription of Pallava king Vijaya Skandavarma)
  • Epigraphica Indica, Vol XXIV, pp. 137–143 (Chura inscription of Vishnugopa)
  • Epigraphica Indica, Vol XVIII, p. 250 (Kopparapu copper plate inscription of Pulakesi II, 7th century CE)
  • Epigraphica Indica, Vol XVIII, p. 27 (Aluru inscription of Chalukya king Vikramaditya V, 1011 CE).
  • South Indian Inscriptions, Volume 6, Inscriptions 124, 128, 129, 132, 139, 147, and 179.

References

  1. ^ General, India. Office of the Registrar (1964), Census of India, 1961, Manager of Publications, p. 13 (item 11)
  2. ^ Census of India, 1991: Prakasam, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1995, p. 8
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-803123-9
    .
  4. ISBN 978-81-86050-53-8
    : "Kammanadu: This region should have acquired its name from the river Gundlakamma. The Kammanadu comprised of the area around Narasaraopet taluq of Guntur district of the east of Srikakulam in Krishna district..."
  5. ^ Lincoln, Bommala Abraham (1992), A study of place-names of Bāpaṭla Taluk: a study on onomastics, B. Subhashini, p. 118: "Here, Kamma indicates a stream. Cf: Gundlakamma: Prakasam District; Perakamma: a big Kamma, River Krishna"
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-81-206-1637-0
    : "Kammanadu: the region between the rivers Gundlakamma and Perakamma rivers in Guntur and Prakasam districts of Andhra Pradesh"
  7. ^ "District Census Handbook: Prakasam" (PDF). Census of India 2011. pp. 9–11. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  8. ^ Sri Venkateswara University Oriental Journal, Sri Venkatesvara University, Oriental Research Institute, 1993, pp. 153–154
  9. ISBN 9788186050927
  10. ^ Sarma, M Somasekhara; Sōmaśēkharaśarma, Mallampalli (1948), History of the Reddi Kingdoms (circa. 1325 A.D. to Circa 1448 A.D.), Andhra University, p. 278
  11. ISBN 9788186073070
  12. ^ Sastry, P. V. Parabrahma (1996), Rural Studies in Early Andhra, V.R. Publication, p. 59
  13. ^ Burgess, J. 1886, Buddhist Stupas of Amaravathi and Jaggayyapeta, Madras Presidency, Archaeological Survey of India, p. 110.
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