Andhra Government all set to bring Motupalli to the limelight

Friday, February 19, 2021

The Motupalli Heritage Society is visualizing the plans for integrated tourism development at Motupalli village. It’s an ancient port town in Chinaganjam mandal in Prakasam district. Motupalli is one of India’s most ancient port towns. It has witnessed the great history and heritage of the Telugu rulers. Because of the transport technology development and wrath of nature, the Motupalli port lost its glamour, significance and roads and other connectivity to the time. Though the port village was once home to the Buddhist monks, Motupalli remained as just any ordinary coastal village with lack of amenities. The historians and locals are requesting state government and archaeology department to get involved in an immediate basis and protect the historical monuments and inscriptions in and around the village.

Noted archaeologist in the Telugu States and CEO of the Cultural Centre of Vijayawada and Amaravati has explained that the Motupalli village is mentioned in the historical manuscripts and inscriptions of Buddha times. He also stated that the well-known European historians and sailors, Hippalus, Ptolemy, Pliny, Fergusson, Marco polo, Yule and others who travelled India between 100 AD and 250 AD, also had mentioned about Krishna River as Mysolus and Motupalli port town as Maisolia and Godavari River as Goaris. He mentioned that the inscriptions of Kakatiya Ganapathi Deva, Anapotha Reddy of the Kondaveedu dynasty and Devaraya II of the Vijayanagara dynasty located in the local Veerabhadra Swamy temple shows the fact that the Motupalli port flourished as an international port, as it gave incentives to the Seaborne traders. The writings by Ptolemy and Periplus and others show that Motupalli is not only old but also popular port town nearly two thousand years ago, he added.

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