Bhattiprolu
A crystal casket with a Buddhist relic was found in the ruins of the Mahachaitya
here. It now is enshrined at the Mahabodhi Society at Kolkata. The pre-Mauryan settlement
here was called Pratipalapura and the Mahachaitya here was 40 metres in diameter.
History of Bhattiprolu
Bhattiprolu is about 40 km from Guntur and a railway station. The original name
of Bhattiprolu was Pratipalapura, a growing Buddhist city in the historical Sala
empire that predated Andhra Satavahanas. From available inscriptional proof, king
Kuberaka was judgment over Bhattiprolu around 230 BC. Bhattiprolu is well known
for its Buddha stupa (Vikramarka kota dibba) designed about 3rd-2nd millennium BC.
During excavations at Bhattiprolu there has been discovered terminology proof of
a Telugu terminology that connected to 3rd Century BC, and the progenitor of Brahmi
program, well known as Bhattiprolu Script to historians.
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