Bhattiprolu

Bhattiprolu
Bhattiprolu
Village
	Buddhist Maha Stupa at Bhattiprolu
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	Bhattiprolu Location in Andhra Pradesh, India Bhattiprolu Bhattiprolu (Andhra Pradesh)
	Coordinates: 16°06′09″N 80°46′51″E / 16.1026°N 80.7807°E
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Bapatla
Mandal	Bhattiprolu
Government
• Type	Panchayati raj
• Body	Bhattiprolu Gram Panchayat
Area
• Total	2,515 ha (6,215 acres)
Population (2011)
• Total	11,092
• Density	440/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	522256
Area code	+91–
Vehicle registration	AP

Bhattiprolu is a village in Bapatla district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Bhattiprolu mandal in Tenali revenue division.^[4] The Buddhist stupa in the village is one of the centrally protected monuments of national importance.^[5] One of the earliest evidence of Brahmi script in South India comes from Bhattiprolu.^[6] The script was written on an urn containing Buddha's relics. The script has been named Bhattiprolu script.

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^ "Population". Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
^ "District Census Handbook : Guntur (Part A)" (PDF). Census of India. Directorate of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh. 2011. pp. 5, 782–783. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
^ "Centrally Protected Monuments". Archeological Survey of India. Archived from the original on 26 June 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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