Chevuru

B. Ch. Chhabra visited Chevuru in November 1938, and he placed the village in the Kaikalur taluk of Krishna (then Kistna) district.¹ He reached it from the neighbouring village of Singarayapalem.¹ The revenue inspector of the Vadali firka (revenue circle) helped him.¹ He noted that the Kaikalur taluk had once been part of the Gudivada taluk, so Chevuru and the villages around it had formerly lain in Gudivada.²

The copper plates

About ten years before Chhabra’s visit, a peasant of Chevuru, Pulovarapa Ankayya, son of Venkata Reddi, was digging old earth for manure from the debris of a ruined mud house.¹ His spade turned up a set of three copper plates.¹ He kept them at home, unnoticed, until Chhabra heard of them and borrowed them for publication.¹

They proved to be a grant of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma I (918–925 in Fleet’s chronology).³⁴ It made the warrior Vemaraja headman of the village of Umikili in the Gudravara district.³⁴

Chhabra identified Umikili with Unikili, and its boundary village Dadrupaka with Rudrapaka, both in the Kaikalur taluk.² He did not say how far they lay from Chevuru.² See the Chevuru plates of Amma I.

Footnotes

1. B. Ch. Chhabra, “Chevuru Plates of Eastern Chalukya Amma I”, Epigraphia Indica XXVII (1947–48, publ. 1956), p. 41 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

2. Chhabra, “Chevuru Plates” (1956), p. 45 and note 2 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Chhabra, “Chevuru Plates” (1956), p. 42 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩²

4. Chhabra, “Chevuru Plates” (1956), p. 44 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩²