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A publication describing the “set of 21 copper sheet inscriptions” discovered by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) astatine Ghanta Matham adjacent Sri Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna Swamy temple successful Srisailam volition beryllium released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected October 16, 2025.
According to the ASI, these inscriptions beryllium to Vijayanagara, Reddi, Gajapati, Recharla Chiefs, Reddis of Rajamahendravarma, and Chengalva dynasties and besides Nawabs of Kurnool and are successful Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu and Odiya languages.
Dr. K. Munirathnam Reddy, Director (Epigraphy), ASI Mysuru, said that the scripts utilized successful these inscriptions are Odiya, Telugu, Nagari, and Nandinagari. The inscriptions recorded the gifts fixed by the kings to villages, gifting a colony for attraction of ‘anna-satra’ (feeding house), gifting villages to Lord Mallikarjuna of Srisailam for conducting festivities successful the temple, and adjacent a colony to a Vedic student good versed successful astronomy to pacify the calamity that was believed to originate owed to the quality of a comet and its meteoric ablution and renewal of grants to the priests of Srisailam and Malleswaram temples.
One specified inscription of Lingama Nayaka king during the Recharla Chiefs play recorded that Rēcharla Lingama Nayaka aft gaining power of the areas occupied earlier by the Turakas had restored the 8 agraharas viz., Vodanekalapalli, Makundavaram, Singapuram, Basavapuram (all successful Munaluriseema), Pudinadgulu (in Gudipalliseema), Autupalli (in Charikondaseema), Juvunemtulu and Sudapalli (in Devarakondaseema), arsenic good arsenic immoderate vrittis of onshore successful the villages viz., Regadevulapalli, Vuggulapalli and Ganapuram to the deity Sri Mahesvaradeva of Mahesvaram. Various services associated with the Srisailam temple were stopped owed to the concern of the Turakas and those were restored by the king aft gaining power of the region.
Another copper sheet successful Nagari publication was recovered to beryllium incomplete, and seemed to person recorded the organisation of 16 vrittis to respective Brahamanas, belonging to Bharadvaja, Atreya, Gautama and Kausika gotras, who each are good versed successful Vedas and Vedangas. It besides recorded the acquisition of 2 vrittis to the engraver and 1 vritti to the composer.
