BhattiProlu Budha Great Stupa Guntur.

Bhattiprolu is a small village in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh State in Southern India

History:
The original name of Bhattiprolu was Pratipalapura, a flourishing Buddhist town in the ancient Sala kingdom that predated Andhra Satavahanas. From available inscriptional evidence, King Kuberaka was ruling over Bhattiprolu around 230 BC. Bhattiprolu is well known for its Buddha stupa (Vikramarka kota dibba) built about 3rd-2nd century BC. During excavations at Bhattiprolu there has been found linguistic evidence of a Telugu language that belongs to 3rd Century BC, and the progenitor of Brahmi script, well known as Bhattiprolu Script to historians. Merchants took the script to Southeast Asia where it parented the scripts of Mon, Burmese, Thai, Khmer, Javanese and Balinese languages. Their similarities to Telugu script can be discerned even today.

Stupa:

Three mounds were discovered in Bhattiprolu in 1870. In 1892 when excavations were undertaken by Alexander Rea, three inscribed stone relic caskets containing crystal caskets, relics of Buddha and jewels were found. The stupa was found to be 40 meters in diameter with an additional basement of 2.4 meters wide running all around. The most significant discovery is the crystal relic casket of sarira dhatu of the Buddha from the central mass of the stupas. The Mahachaitya (great stupa) remains of a large pillared hall, a large group of ruined votive stupas with several images of Buddha, a stone receptacle containing copper vessel, which in turn, contained two more, a silver casket and with in it, a gold casket enclosing beads of bone and crystal were found

Villages:

Some of the villages in Bhattiprolu mandal are Addepalli,Vellatur,Voleru, Chintamotu, PEDAPULIVARRU, Gorigapudi, Guttavaripalem, Pesarlanka, Pedalanka, Pallekona, Allamudi Gudavalli and Kanagala