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Unravelling the ancient inscriptions

TIRUPATI: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has launched a new project to unravel the inscriptions found in the Vaishnavite temples of Andhra Pradesh in order to get a glimpse of the socio-economic, political and cultural conditions prevalent under various regimes in the past. The study will take into account the inscriptions found from the Satavahana period (2 B.C.) up to the Qutub Shahi period.

The TTD’s human resources arm, Sri Venkateswara Employees Training Academy (SVETA), has taken up the ‘Andhra Pradesh Vaishnava Alaya Sasana Parisodhana Project’ with Dr.Vedantam Rajagopala Chakravarthy, a Vijayawada-based academician on Sastras and Dr.K. Muniratnam Reddy, a Mysore-based senior epigraphist of Archeological Survey of India (ASI). While the inscriptions in Tirumala, Govindaraja (Tirupati), Padmavathi (Tiruchanur) and Kalyana Venkateswara (Srinivasa Mangapuram) temples in and around Tirupati have already been recorded, the study will cover the remaining temples under the TTD control such as Narayanavanam, Appalayagunta etc., and scores of other temples which are more than 200 years old.

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