The first Telugu inscription dating back to 575 CE is set to get a replica soon. The original stone inscription was found in 1904 at the Chennakesava – Siddheswara temple in Kalamalla village near Yerraguntla in Kadapa district. The stone, which was originally 5’6” tall, has reduced to about four feet due to wear and tear, making the inscriptions hard to see. Deepa Venkat, Managing Trustee of Swarna Bharat Trust and daughter of former Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, took the initiative to prepare the replica. It will be officially unveiled on December 21 at a program by Janumaddi Sahithi Peetham at the C. P. Brown Research Centre for Languages in Kadapa. According to J. Vijayabhaskar, convener of Janumaddi Sahithi Peetham, and historian Bommisetty Ramesh, the idea of making a replica came because the original inscription had faded so much. The first full Telugu inscription was written by Renati Chola king Erikala Mutthuraju. It was copied in 1904 by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), but the original stone was left at the site. Ahead of the 2012 World Telugu Conference in Tirupati, efforts to highlight this inscription led linguist and former Deputy Speaker Mandali Buddha Prasad and ASI’s Director (Epigraphy) K. Muniratnam Reddy to search for it. They looked at the Egmore Museum in Chennai and even considered London Museum but found nothing. Finally, in January 2022, the stone was located in Kalamalla village but at a different spot from where it was first seen. The unveiling will be attended by local leaders including Jammalamadugu MLA C. Adinarayana Reddy, Kadapa MLA R. Madhavi Reddy, Collector Sridhar Cherukuri, and Yogi Vemana University Vice-Chancellor B. Rajasekhar. This event will revive a priceless piece of Telugu history and make it accessible to future generations.