Place · trading canal city · India
Eluru
Also known as Eluru City
The historic city at Eluru on the Eluru canal in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh (headquarters of Eluru district since 2022). The Eastern Chalukya capital Vengi (6-12 century CE) was located 13 kilometres away at Pedavegi. Modern Eluru is the trading, administrative and educational centre of the West Godavari delta, famous for Eluru's hand-woven carpets (GI tag 2007) and the 2020 'Eluru mystery illness' outbreak that affected 600+ residents. The adjacent Guntupalli Buddhist rock-cut caves (2-century BCE Satavahana) and the Dronamraju Satyanarayana memorial anchor the city's heritage.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- Eastern Chalukya · Indian Union
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 16.711, 81.095
Connections (1)
- Site withinGuntupalli caves, Eluru
The 2-century BCE Guntupalli Buddhist rock-cut caves — the only rock-cut circular chaityagriha in India — sit within the Eluru-district administrative zone of Andhra Pradesh (40 kilometres from the Eluru city centre). The Satavahana-period Buddhist monastic site documents the Eluru region's pre-urban Buddhist history preceding the Eastern Chalukya Vengi capital at Pedavegi, 13 kilometres from the modern Eluru city.
Sources
Standard reference; district gazetteer and Wikipedia.
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