Nelakondapalli

Nelakondapally is a town and headquarters of a mandal in Khammam district, Telangana, India, located twenty-one kilometres from Khammam.Nelakondapalli is located at a major road junction on the routes from Khammam to Kodad and Kusumanchi. Transportation by bus and car facilitates travel from Nelakondapalli to several villages in close proximity, such as Bodulabanda, Mandrajupally, Anantanagar, Aregudem and Kattukachavaram,Applanarasimhapuram.HistoryNelakondapalli is a historic site encompassed by a mud fortification wall covering nearly one-hundred acres . Excavations there have unearthed several foundations of brick-built viharas, wells, cisterns, a mahastupa, terracotta figurines, a bronze idol of Buddha, a miniature stupa carved in limestone and other materials from the 3rd and 4th centuries.Also of historical and, particularly, cultural significance are two archaeological sites located approximately one mile from Nelakondapalli. According to local Hindu folk tradition, the sites referred to as Virataraju Dibba and Keechaka Gundam were contemporaneous to certain events described in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The discovery of archeological relics at the sites seems to corroborate the local Hindu folk account.