Kotilingala

Anand · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:52 am Post subject: Kotilingala

"Kotilingala: This early historic site is located in Peddapalli Taluk of Karimnagar district. Excavations at the place exposed brick built wells, drains, granaries, apsidal houses with rubble foundations, early historic pottery, Brahmi label inscriptions, beads, a good number of punch marked coins, pre Satavahana and Satavahana coins. Other antiquities include dice, bangle pieces, moulds, beads of semi precious and terracottas, ivory combs, weights, shell bangles, terracotta figures etc"
If anybody has more information about this place, please give some references.
Anandaswarup

Anand · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject:

About my query on Kotilingala, there is some information in
"History of Andhras up to 1565 AD" by J. Durgaprasad
which is downloadable:
http://202.41.85.234:8000/gw_44_5/hi-res/hcu_images/G2.pdf
(reference kindly given by J. K. Mohana Rao garu of RB). The coins found in Kondapur and Kotilingala refer to Simuka Satavahana, supposedly the
founder of Satavahana dynasty. This seems to indicate that Satavahanas
ruled parts of current A.P. from the earlist days (Though Satavahanas have been also called Andhras, there seem to be some questions about whether they were orignally based in Maharashtra or Bellary). One of the experts who studied these coins (perhaps one of the excavators) is P.V. Parabrahma Sastry. There is a book of essays in his honour:
https://www.vedamsbooks.com/no35925.htm
It seems that Telangana has been the centre of Andhra for a long time.
This gives me a rough start of study which can be pursued later. I hope that this may be of interest to some others. Regards,
Swarup

Anand · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:36 am Post subject:

Another artcle with reference to Kotilingala:
http://www.andhrajyothy.com/sunday/sundayshow.asp?qry=history
Does anybody know whether Kotilingala is easy to visit and are there any tourist places nearby?