INFORMATION PROVIDED BY: VAMSHI CHITINENI (KARIMNAGAR) Dhulikatta Travel Information
20 Kms from Karimnagar is Dhulikatta an important Buddhist spot visited by monks from all over the world. Many Buddhist stupas of the Satavahana period are found here. The 3 day Satavahana festival in conducted in the month of January every year.
In recent years due to planned excavations at Nagarjunakonda, Amaravati-Dharanikota, Saliohundam, Dhulikatta, Kotilingala, Cudinallam, chandavaram and Peddavegi, we are in a position to assess, partially at least, the components of the early historical cultures of this geographical tract.
The first one is Dhulikatta in district Karimnagar.
Dhulikatta stupa slabs have some unmistakable Bharhut art trends but of falned limestones.
An interesting early historic settlement, situated 200 kms from Hyderabad, Dhulikatta holds high signifance as an important center of the Buddhist learning and culture.
In the close precincts of Vatakapur Village excavations at Dhulikatta have divulged remarkable Buddhist remains, that include more than 50 skillfully sculptured stone slabs with representations of the stupa, the Muchilanda Naga (Five - headed cobra) worship of Dharmachkra and Mahabhinishkramana, exquisitely delineated in limestone.
The ancient seat of the Ikshavaku dynasty, known 1700 years ago as Vijayapuri, home to the center of Buddhist learning, Nagarjuna was a Buddhist monk of great repute in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
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