siva temple of old jammikunta

Jammikunta is situated at a distance of 53 kms. Southeast of Karimnagar and can be reached via Huzurabad. It is arailway station on the Kazipet-Balharshah line of South CentralRailway.

There is an inscription incised on two sides of the dhvaja stambha, which is of about 25 feet in height standing before the Siva temple in the old Jammikunta village, which is about 3 Kms from new station Jammikunta.

This is a Kannada inscription of 55 lines in total bearing 25 lines on first side and thirty lines on second side of the pillar, which was set up on Friday, Vaishaka Suddha Tadiya of Saka year Manmatha 917 which is equal to 5th April A.D.995.

It belongs to the period of Taila II and records the gifts of two Khandus comprising 20 martars of wet land and other dry lands and two ratanas to the god Aditya by Nagiya, the gavunda of Jammikunta village. The gift was made for the merit of his wife Vemakabbe. In the inscription the village is known as Dammikunte.

The Adityagriha mentioned in the inscription is now no more extant. The inscriptions of Ahavamalladeva Taila II noticed at Choppadandi and Jammikunta reveal that the solar worship waspopular in this region.

The Siva temple facing the east stands beside a tank. The present temple is reported to have been built over the ruins of the old temple. Some loose sculptures of the Kalyani Chalukyan period are found in and around the temple. The figures of Ganapati, Bhairava shaded by a hooded Naga, a few Naginis half human and half serpentine in form holding a shield and khadga in their hands canopied by three, five or seven hoods are noticed. The nagini figures are similar to those found at Polas.

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