An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c50.40

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Located very close to the Yelleswaram ferry ghat which could be approached only from the NAGARJUNAKONDA side by crossing the river it was in the main a pilgrim-centre. There were a number of late Cālukyan temples built in stone, and the most important of them was the Yelleśvarasvāmin temple or, as the inscriptions say, the temple of Yeleśvaradeva. Many pillars here bore records in early Cālukyan characters of the 8th and 9th centuries. One of the inscriptions, in florid Nārari characters of the 10th century, referred to one Uggavala of Varendra-viṣaya (n. Bengal). Donative records may be dated variously from the 4th to the 13th centuries and barring two or three early inscriptions most of them were in Telugu inscriptions registering some gift or the other to the god Yeleśvaradeva.