Amaravati's Amareswara temple is a Shaiva pilgrimage site on the Krishna side of the Guntur region. The same town contains or adjoins the celebrated Buddhist stupa remains. Palnadu tourism material describes both in the wider Amaravati context, while ASI lists the ruined stupa separately as a protected archaeological site. An MCQ asking “Which town has a Buddhist stupa?” and another asking “Where is the Amareswara shrine?” can therefore share an answer without referring to the same structure.

The third use of the name is the modern AP capital region. Keep the three layers on a timeline card: ancient religious/archaeological place, continuing temple, contemporary planning and legal capital questions. Do not infer that a sculpture from Amaravati is a temple idol, or that a current capital statute dates the ancient stupa. The Krishna River is the common geographic anchor. This chapter trains a general habit: repeated place names require attention to the noun following them.

Worked example: Amaravati Amareswara and the Amaravati Mahastupa share a town label yet represent different religious and archaeological contexts. Make a two-row table: Shiva shrine and Buddhist stupa. Neither is the same as a capital administrative building. An MCQ that asks 'which Amaravati site' is testing the feature after the place name, not the place name alone.

Active recall: Identify Amaravati's stupa, temple and modern civic meaning. Which one is an ASI-protected archaeological remain?