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Vavveru

Village near Buchireddipalem in the old Kovur taluk of the Nellore district. About 1928 the copper-plate grant of the Pallava king Simhavarman, giving the village of Vilavatti, was dug up here from about eight feet below the old village site. Its editor thought Vilavatti might be Vavveru itself or the neighbouring Vidavaluru.

Vavveru (Vavvaru) is a village a mile and a half west of Buchireddipalem, in what was the Kovur taluk of the Nellore district.1 About 1928 Satyavelu Rami Reddi was digging old village earth there, and about eight feet below the surface he found a set of copper plates.1 Some earthen pots were found with them, but they were broken and not kept.1

The plates are the Vilavatti grant of the Pallava king Simhavarman, son of the crown prince Vishnugopa.1

Vilavatti and Paddukkara

The grant gives the village of Vilavatti in Mundarashtra.2 Its editor, C. R. Krishnamacharlu, thought Vilavatti might be Vavveru itself or, more probably, Vidavaluru, about 1½ miles east of it.2

The grant was issued from Paddukkara.2 Krishnamacharlu identified this place with Padugupadu, about nine miles south of Vavveru, a mile from Kovur and north of the Penner.2

Footnotes

  1. C. R. Krishnamacharlu, “Vilavatti Grant of Pallava Simhavarman”, Epigraphia Indica XXIV (1937–38), p. 296 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Krishnamacharlu, “Vilavatti Grant” (1938), p. 301 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

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People

Simhavarman II (Pallava)

Pallava king of the Nellore–Guntur country, son of the crown prince Vishnugopa. Four of his grants survive. All give villages in the Guntur and Nellore districts and were issued from camps, not from Kanchi: the second Omgodu grant (year 4), the Pikira grant from Menmatura (year 5), the Mangalur grant from Dasanapura (year 8) and the Vilavatti grant (year 10). Many scholars date his accession to 436 from a Jain work, the Lokavibhaga; others place him about 500.

Inscriptions

Vilavatti grant of Simhavarman

c. 446 CE

Sanskrit copper-plate grant issued from Paddukkara in the tenth year of the Pallava king Simhavarman, son of the crown prince Vishnugopa. It gives the village of Vilavatti in Mundarashtra, with the taxes due from it, to the Brahman Vishnusarman. It was found about 1928 at Vavveru in the Kovur taluk of Nellore, and C. R. Krishnamacharlu edited it in 1938. It lists the dues of craftsmen and traders and bears the earliest clear Pallava bull on its seal.

References

Sources (1)
  1. N. P. Chakravarti (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIV (1937–38) (opens in a new tab), Manager of Publications, Delhi, 1938, pp. 296, 301. C. R. Krishnamacharlu, Vilavatti Grant of Pallava Simhavarman. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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