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Vemuluripadu (Vemalurpadu)

Village close to the Phirangipuram railway station in Guntur district, from a resident of which the Vemalurpadu plates of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II were acquired for the Madras Museum in 1910.

E. Hultzsch, editing the Vemalurpadu plates of Amma II in 1926, described Vemalurpadu as a village close to the Phirangipuram railway station in the Guntur district. H. Krishna Sastri had acquired the plates for the Madras Museum in 1910 from a Muslim resident of the village. The plates had come to him from the Collector of Guntur with their ring still uncut.12

The grant itself does not concern this village. In it the king, at the request of the feudatory Durgaraja, gives Durgaraja’s minister Musiya two fields in the Karma-rashtra district, which Hultzsch placed in parts of the Ongole taluk.2 See Eastern Chalukyas.

Footnotes

  1. E. Hultzsch, “Vemalurpadu Plates of Ammaraja II”, Epigraphia Indica XVIII (1925–26), p. 226 and note 2 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  2. Hultzsch, “Vemalurpadu Plates of Ammaraja II” (1926), pp. 227–228 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

Photos

Inscriptions

Vemalurpadu plates of Amma II

945–970 CE

Five undated Sanskrit copper plates of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II (945–970). The Madras Museum got them in 1910 from a resident of Vemalurpadu, near Phirangipuram in Guntur district. At the request of Durgaraja, great-grandson of Gunaga Vijayaditya III's general Pandaranga, the king gives two fields in the Karma-rashtra district as an agrahara (Brahmin village) to Durgaraja's minister Musiya. E. Hultzsch, who edited them in 1926, found the writer's Sanskrit full of mistakes. The grant adds that Amma II was made heir-apparent at eight and crowned at twelve.

References

Sources (1)
  1. H. Krishna Sastri and Hirananda Sastri (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XVIII (1925–26) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, Calcutta, 1926, pp. 226–227. E. Hultzsch, Vemalurpadu plates of Ammaraja II (No. 25). [Public domain]

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