12 Facts About Nagarjunakonda

Nagarjunakonda is a historical town, now an island located near Nagarjuna Sagar in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, near the state border with Telangana.

The sculptures found at Nagarjunakonda are now mostly removed to various museums in India and abroad.

The contemporary texts and inscriptions allude to a hill fortress at Nagarjunakonda, which was probably built by the Reddi rulers as a frontier fortress protecting their main fort of Kondaveedu.

Some sculptures excavated at Nagarjunakonda are now at other museums in Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Paris and New York.

Great stupa at Nagarjunakonda belongs to the class of uncased stupas, its brickwork being plastered over and the stupa decorated by a large garland-ornament.

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Nagarjunakonda has a light beard, is semi-nude and carries a drinking horn, and there is a barrel of wine next to him.

Nagarjunakonda inscriptions are a series of epigraphical inscriptions found in the area of Nagarjunakonda.

Nagarjunakonda inscriptions tends to stress the cosmopolitan nature of Buddhist activities there, explained that a variety of Buddhist monks came from various lands.

The Nagarjunakonda inscriptions are the earliest substantial South Indian Sanskrit inscriptions, probably from the late 3rd-century to early 4th-century CE.

Nagarjunakonda describes each storey as being in the shape of a different animal, with the uppermost being in the shape of a pigeon.

Nagarjunakonda has referred to Parvata as Po-lo-mo-lo-ki-li or "Mountain of the Black Bee" in his book Great Tang Records on the Western Regions; as it was then known as Bhramaragiri, because it had a shrine of Bharmaramba.

The main stupa of Nagarjunakonda named Mahachaitya is believed to contain the sacred relics of the Buddha.