Yelavarru

Yelavarru, which J. F. Fleet spelt Yelivarru, is a small village in the Repalle (Repalli) country, between Inturu and Amartaluru.¹ Fleet identified it in 1883 with Elavarru, the village named in a grant of the Eastern Chalukya king Amma II.¹² Amma II gave Elavarru as an agrahara (village for Brahmins) in the Velanandu district.¹²

Fleet also identified Inturu and Amartaluru with Inthuri and Amutunuri, which the grant names among the village’s boundaries.¹ He noted that the village was not far from Tsandavole.¹ A few years earlier a quantity of gold had been found there, partly melted into a mass and partly in coins.¹

The copper plates

The owner of the plates was Mallampati Mangayya of Yelivarru.¹ He told Fleet that he had found them in 1864 while building a new house.¹ As he was bringing earth, his bullock put its foot into a hole in the path.¹ Digging there, he found a large jar with a rusty iron cover, and across the jar an iron bar from which the copper plates hung.¹

The grant gives the village to Koramiya, head of the writing office of the king’s gold treasury, on the occasion of the winter solstice.² Fleet placed the village in the Guntur district in 1883 and in the Krishna (then Kistna) district in 1891.¹³ See the Yelavarru plates of Amma II.

Footnotes

1. J. F. Fleet, “Sanskrit and Old-Canarese Inscriptions, No. CXXVI”, Indian Antiquary XII (1883), p. 91 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Fleet, “Sanskrit and Old-Canarese Inscriptions, No. CXXVI” (1883), p. 95, translation (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. J. F. Fleet, “The Chronology of the Eastern Chalukya Kings”, Indian Antiquary XX (1891), p. 271 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩