Sultanabad (Gudimettapalle)

Gudimettapalle is a very small village lying on the road to Peddapalli at a distance of only a kilometre from Sultanabad. It is almost like one of the localities of Sultanabad town. The place seems to be an early historical site with a mound where several pieces of black and red ware pottery are noticed.

This region is studded with a large number of early historical sites almost in every alternate village. There is a single shrine temple dedicated to Siva. It lies in the fields, nearer to the P.W.D. Road.It consists of garbhagriha, antarala and a sixteen pillared mandapa. The temple faces the north. The walls of the garbhagriha are in dilapidated condition.

The outer shell of the wall is lost and the stone blocks of the inner shell are exposed. The superstructure is also lost

The mandapa has a parapet wall around it leavingpassages on north, east and west. The western portion of themandapa is totally lost. The ceiling of the remainingcompartments in the mandapa is laid in Kadalikakarana processeach decorated with a full blown lotus at the centre.

The doorway of antarala is typically Kakatiyan with a perforated screen window on either side. Purnakumbhas are carved beneath the door jambs. The doorway of garbhagriha contains Saivite Dvarapalas at the base and Gajalakshmi motif on lalata. The projecting cornice above the lintel is decorated with pendants. The architrave is sculptured with turrets. There is a typical Kakatiyan Nandi in the mandapa with its face mutilated.

Sultanabad was one among the nine taluks of Elgandal,when it was district headquarters in A.D.1897. When the districtswere reorganised during the period of Mir Mahaboob Ali Khan the Nizam VI, the district headquarters was shifted from Elgandal to Karimnagar in A.D. 1905.

Sultanabad remained as a talukheadquarters in Karimnagar district also. Now it is the headquarters of a Mandal.

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