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Talamanchi

Village north of Nellore town, in the old Nellore taluk. Here a ploughman turned up the copper-plate grant of the sixth year of the Chalukya king Vikramaditya I (660). He found it in land called Talamanchipadu, said to be the site of a former village.

A servant of Adapala Venkata Reddi found the Talamanchi plates of the Chalukya king Vikramaditya I while ploughing land known as Talamanchipadu in Talamanchi, in the Nellore taluk.12 It was land “where a flourishing village is said to have once stood”.2

A. Butterworth and V. Venugopal Chetti first published the plates, and on the map of their Nellore District Inscriptions they marked Talamanchi to the north of Nellore town.12 The plates were sent to the Madras Museum.2

Footnotes

  1. E. Hultzsch, “Talamanchi Plates of Vikramaditya I; A.D. 660”, Epigraphia Indica IX (1908), p. 98 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  2. Hultzsch, “Talamanchi Plates” (1908), p. 99 and note 1 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

Photos

People

Vikramaditya I (Chalukya of Badami)

c. 655–680 CE

Chalukya king of Badami (about 655–680), a son of Pulakesin II. He restored the kingdom after the Pallavas took Badami, fought three Pallava kings and took Kanchi. His copper-plate grants come from the Telugu country: Amudalapadu and Gadwal in today's Telangana, the Kurnool district, Talamanchi near Nellore, and Hyderabad. His Amudalapadu plates of 660 record his initiation into the Shaiva faith. A queen of his installed a linga at Alampur.

Inscriptions

Talamanchi plates of Vikramaditya I

660 CE

A Sanskrit copper-plate grant of the sixth year of the Chalukya king Vikramaditya I, found by a ploughman at Talamanchi in the Nellore taluk and now in the Madras Museum. It gives the village of Elasatti to the king's own teacher, Srimeghacharya. F. Kielhorn dated its solar eclipse to 13 July 660, and used it to fix Vikramaditya's accession between September 654 and July 655.

References

Sources (1)
  1. E. Hultzsch and Sten Konow (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. IX (1907–08) (opens in a new tab), Government of India, Calcutta, 1908, pp. 98–99. E. Hultzsch, Talamanchi Plates of Vikramaditya I. [Public domain]

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