Jaggayyapeta

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Jaggayyapeta

Town in the Nandigama taluk of Kistna District, Madras, situated in i6° 54' X. and So*^ 7' E. Population (1901), 8,432. It is a depot for much of the commerce which passes between the Northern Circars and the Nizam's Dominions, and possesses a small silk-weaving industry. The place was formerly called Betavolu ; but a local chief, who enclosed it with a wall and invited merchants to settle there, named it, after his father, Jaggayyapeta. Near by was discovered in the last quarter of the nineteenth century a Buddhist stTipa, 66 feet in diameter and surrounded with marble sculptures.