Tel: ఏలూరు ēlūru
‘Sun City’ [Helapuri, Ellore, Ellooru] City/District, Andhra Pradesh
From Skt/Tel: heli, hēḷi, ‘(the) Sun’; and Tel: uru/uuru, ‘town’, ‘city’.
Helapuri has an ancient history dating back to the 3rdC BC Mauryan dynasty.
The modern city is famous for wool-pile carpets and hand woven products: tug weaving was a skill brought in my Persian migrants from the 16thC.
[Article: Famous Eluru crafted carpets on the verge of extinction].
For related place names see Indian Place names and Andhra Pradesh place names.
