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Vandram

Village in the western Godavari delta near Bhimavaram, where copper plates of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II (945–970) were found in a backyard and edited in 1908. The grant gives a village to Kuppanayya, a minister who had founded a Shiva shrine at Draksharama.

Vandram was described in 1908 as a village in the Bhimavaram taluk of the Krishna (then Kistna) district. Copper plates of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II were found there in the backyard of Buddharaju Venkataraju. The Head Assistant Collector of Narsapur forwarded them through the Collector of Kistna to the epigraphist V. Venkayya, and E. Hultzsch edited them in Epigraphia Indica.1 V. Rangacharya entered them in 1919 under Vandram in the Bhimavaram taluk.2

The grant

The plates record a grant to Kuppanayya, a minister who had founded a shrine of Shiva at Draksharama. The king addresses the ryots (cultivators) of the twelve villages of which Prandoru was the chief, in the Pavunavara district.3 Hultzsch could not identify Prandoru or the villages granted, Tanderu and Betipundi.4 Rangacharya suggested, with a query, that Prandoru was Vandram itself.2 See the Vandram plates of Amma II.

Footnotes

  1. E. Hultzsch, “Vandram Plates of Ammaraja II”, Epigraphia Indica IX (1907–08), p. 131 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  2. V. Rangacharya, A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, Vol. II (1919), p. 888, Kistna district, Bhimavaram taluk, No. 127 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  3. Hultzsch, “Vandram Plates of Ammaraja II” (1908), p. 132 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  4. Hultzsch, “Vandram Plates of Ammaraja II” (1908), p. 133 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

Photos

Inscriptions

Vandram plates of Amma II

c. 945–970 CE

Five worn Sanskrit copper plates of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II (crowned 945), found in a backyard at Vandram in the Bhimavaram taluk. E. Hultzsch edited them in 1908. They grant a village, Tanderu or Betipundi, as an agrahara (Brahmin village) to Kuppanayya, a minister who had founded a shrine of Shiva at Draksharama. Their opening repeats the Yelavarru grant almost word for word, and one plate is engraved over another grant of the same king.

References

Sources (2)
  1. E. Hultzsch and Sten Konow (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. IX (1907–08) (opens in a new tab), Government of India, Calcutta, 1908, pp. 131–133. E. Hultzsch, Vandram plates of Ammaraja II. [Public domain]
  2. V. Rangacharya, A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency (collected till 1915), with Notes and References, Vol. II (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1919, pp. 888. Kistna district, Bhimavaram taluk, No. 127. [Public domain]

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