Jaggayyapeta

Jaggayyapeta is an ancient town under the municipality in Krishna district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its original name, Bethavolu, was changed to Jaggayyapeta by Raja Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu in memory of his father, Jagga Nayudu. Bethavolu was very famous for its ancient Buddhist stupa built during the Satavahana period.Jaggayypeta is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh with 74 villages and 159,070 registered voters.

There are approximately 150 temples in the town. It has one government college (S.G.S college) and four well-known schools:Chegu vidyalayam, Nagarjuna Public School, Little Angels Public School and Jawahar D A V Public School.It has well established privite colleges mainly: J.R.College and S.A.V & N.V.J.R college.

Jaggayyapeta is now famous for its cement industries, Musical Instruments and gold businesses - there are around ten cement industrial sites near the town. The delayed Pulichintala Project is around 21 km from the centre of Jaggayyapeta.

The Buddhist Stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in The Krishna District, Madras Presidency Surveyed in 1882/Jass Burgess. Reprint. First Published in 1886. 1996. 131 p., plates, $22.

"From the Preface:" The present volume contains the results of an examination of the remains of the Amaravati Stupa made in December 1881 and January 1882, soon after the excavation of the site by orders of the Madras Government. By that excavation 255 slabs were laid bare, including a number that had been previously unearthed by Mr. R. Sewell, and again reburied for safety; other 44, which he had stored in shed, and 29 slabs at Bejwada library, brought up the total to 329 of all sorts,--some of them mere fragments, with little or no sculpture upon them. To these, by some small excavations, I was able to add 90 more bearing sculptures or inscriptions, and had the time and means at my disposal allowed a systematic examination, still more might have been discovered.