Jaggayyapeta Buddhist Stupa - Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India - Buddhist temple in Jaggaiahpet - Krishna, India

Buddhist stupas dating back to 200 BC. Sculptures and scriptures of Neolithic, Megalithic and medieval periods are also found around the town. No maintenance. Lost in history. Neglected by the government. Hidden gem! Government should take proper care of the site. History should be showcased at the site. Proper maintenance necessary to protect our heritage and pride of India.

Jaggayyapeta stupa is what this site is called in official ASI documents and scholarly publications. It is one of many ancient Buddhist sites found along the Krishna river valley. This place is impressive, with marble paneled stupa and numerous fragments of Buddhist artwork. Some are inscribed in Brahmi script confirming that this site existed before the 4th-century. The statues and other discoveries here indicate that this site was active between the 6th and 9th centuries, possibly for a few more centuries after the 9th. Some items from here have been moved to the state museum for preservation.

Remaining of the historical bhudist Era.. you have to bit off-road to get there

JAGGAYYAPET BUDDHA STUPA,Krishna Dt,A.P Dhanam Bodu'(Local name of Jaggayyapet buddha stupa) lying east of Jaggayyapeta, has in it the remains of an ancient stupa, which has been lying there for 2,000 years.This standing Buddha is exceptional, not merely because it was found undamaged, but also because it differs both in age and style from the rest of finds. It has an inscription on its lotus base in characters of the sixth century. The gist of the inscription being that the image was made under instructions from Jayaprabhacharya, a disciple of Nagarjunacharya. It is concluded that it belongs to a much later age than the rest of the sculptures which are akin to those of the first phase of the Amaravati stupa, and hence are dated as early as 200 B.C. Jaggaiahpet is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from NH-9, which connects Pune and Machilipatnam. A railway line runs from Jaggaiahpeta town to Motumari town. It is used only for goods traffic- mainly cement, raw material for cement plants and limestone for steel plants- and no passenger trains run on this railway line. Thus Motimari railway station (station code MTMI) at Motumari town on Kazipet-Vijayawada section of South Central Railway is the nearest railhead. The railway line from Motumari to Jaggaiahpeta has been extended to Mellacheruvu in May 2012 and is proposed to be extended 40 kilometres (25 mi) to Vishnupuram railway station on Nadikudi-Bibinagar section of South Central Railway. The Motumari-Vishnupuram railway line will connect Jaggaiahpeta railway station with Vijayawada and Hyderabad

Popularly known as Dhanam Bodu, this place is a must watch. It has sculptures and inscriptions dated 2nd century B.C. The Govt and Archaeology department should coordinate and work together for the development of the site. Instead of merely celebrating the birth anniversaries, the concerned authorities should take concrete steps in developing it as a tourist place in lines with the state capital Amravati.

It's near jaggayapeta railway station world famous spot, but no staying facilities ,no other piligrams came ,some. Timings are there her is one watch man only will stay near that spot in his observations to protect that location, old and old shshnas and some desined stone and architecture are. A liability , good knowledge about history, No gaids are available here

It's an ancient place which is imprint of Buddhism.. It is famously known as Dhanam Bodu in Jaggayyapeta.

Mound 'Dhanam Bodu'(Local name of Jaggayyapet buddha stupa) lying east of Jaggayyapeta, has in it the remains of an ancient stupa, which has been lying there for 2,000 years. All this is recent history and is self-evident. But apart from it, this region has an ancient and splendid history behind it. Though it is so, only a few know that the innocent-looking mound 'Dhanam Bodu', lying east of Jaggaiahpeta, has in it the remains of an ancient stupa, which has been lying there for 2,000 years. During the excavations in 1818, a few carved slabs from one of the brick mounds revealed the existence of a group of ancient stupas. After excavation, the stupa was found to be 9 meters in diameter and was decorated with slabs of the same material used in Amaravati. Inside the casing the stupa is made completely out of bricks and earth. About a kilometre from the town is a hill known as Dhanambodu or Hill of wealth on which once stood a great Stupa or Mahachaitya. Around the hillock are traces of monastic buildings. A Mahachaitya filled with layers of rubble & gravel two feet thick. The slabs surrounding the base of the stupa were plain very few of them having any carving except a small pilaster up the edge. Some of the sculptures on the pilasters closely resemble in style of Bharhut sculptures. The capitals are heavy and roughly bell-shaped and show addorsed double-winged animals like that at Patalkhora. Some of the slabs were inscribed in characters of Mauryan type ascribable to the beginning of the 2nd century BC. Fourteen sculptures recovered from here (All of them either broken or mere fragments, the only exception being a standing Buddha) and are in the Madras Museum. This standing Buddha is exceptional, not merely because it was found undamaged, but also because it differs both in age and style from the rest of finds. It has an inscription on its lotus base in characters of the sixth century. The gist of the inscription being that the image was made under instructions from Jayaprabhacharya, a disciple of Nagarjunacharya. It is concluded that it belongs to a much later age than the rest of the sculptures which are akin to those of the first phase of the Amaravati stupa, and hence are dated as early as 200 B.C. The most interesting as well as important of the marbles here is a slab representing a Chakravarti. The seven jewels which surround him - the queen, the prince, the minister, the elephant, the horse, the wheel, and the gems - proclaim him to the world as a king of kings. Noteworthy features of this sculpture are not only the square coins that are showered on the emperor from the sky and the jewels worn by the human figures, but also the elongated structure of those figures which constitute a marked departure from the stunted representations of the Gandhara School. It is this elegant attenuation of the figures the subsequently led to the "towering and graceful forms" in the sculptures of the middle phase of Andhra sculpture at Amaravati. Another interesting find in this area is the "punyasala," a beautiful sculpture showing a two-storied shrine. dhnNbooddu... veelgiri...beetvoolu.. jggyypeett. kRssnnaajillaa jggyypeett.. shivaaruloo ceruvu oddddun cinn koNdd, daanipai bauddh sthuupN. adi migtaa bauddh sthuupaallaaNttidi kaadu. caaritrkNgaa caalaa prtyeektlu kligindi. adi sNgh sNskrnnoodymaaniki keeNdrNgaa viraajillin puraatn keeNdrN. attu guNttuuru jillaalooni amraavti, ittu nlgoNdd jillaalooni naagaarjunkoNddlloo bauddh ksseetraal nirmaannN jrigin kaalNloonee dhnNbooddu nirmaannmuu jrigiNdnddaaniki aadhaaraalunnaayi. alaagee idi kriistu puurvN reNddoo shtaabdNloonee unikiloo vuNdnddaanikii aadhaaraalunnaayi. nijaaniki dhnNbooddu dggr ippuddu gopp shilpklllu eemii leevu, vaatti aanvaalllu maatrmee migilaayi. amraavtilooni puraavstu shaakh myuujiyNloo.. jggyypeett dhnNbooddunuNci trliNci bhdrprcin apuruup vigrhaalu vunnaayi. aNtkNttee apuruupmain vigrhaalu aNtkNttee muNdugaanee lNddn velllaayi. akkddinuNci nyuuyaark, boosttn ngraalku baattpttttaayi. enni trliNpulu jriginaa, sthaanikulu enni ettukelllinaa... ippttikii trgni aakrssnngaanee vuNttuNdi dhnNbooddu. akkddi shaasnaalu ennoo telugu uusulu cebutuNttaayi.