Pakhal Lake

Detail

• The lake lies in Narsampet taluk. The Imperial Gazetteer gives its position as 17° 57′ N, 79° 59′ E.Imperial Gazetteer 1909
• The dam is about two thousand yards long and holds back nearly thirteen square miles of water. The lake measures roughly 8,000 by 6,000 yards.Imperial Gazetteer 1909
• An undated inscription from the reign of Ganapati Deva credits the tank to Jagadala Mummadi, son of the minister Bayyana Nayaka. The editor assigns the inscription to about 1245.Epigraphia Telanganica 2023 · Pakhal inscription 1245
• The 1981 census handbook dates the tank to about 1213. The 1900 survey records a tradition that ascribes it to Pratapa Rudra.District Census Handbook 1986 · ASI 1900
• A summer palace said to be Pratapa Rudra’s stood about four miles north-east of the village and one mile below the west side of the lake. The palace was built of great stone blocks without mortar, and nothing of it survives.ASI 1900
• A small pavilion called the chabutra of Shitab Khan stood at the centre of the bund.Imperial Gazetteer 1909 · ASI 1900
• A stone pillar on the bund carries an illegible inscription. Tradition says that it records the builder as Raja Khaldya.ASI 1900
• Pakhal drains toward the Krishna, while Ramappa and Laknavaram lakes drain to the Godavari. The three lakes therefore belong to different river basins.Warangal District Gazetteer 1976
• A tale collected for Colin Mackenzie about 1800 says that Pratapa Rudra built Pakhal Lake by magic. Lakshmi Ranjanam also reports that traditions credit the lake to Pratapa Rudra.Talbot 2001 · Lakshmi Ranjanam 1975
• The Pakhal inscription names its composer only by the title Kavichakravarti. Parabrahma Sastry identifies him as a court poet of Ganapati Deva who also composed a Chebrolu inscription of the general Jaya.Parabrahma Sastry 1981 (Telugu)