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Nandhivardhamanapuram

Talking about Rani Rudrama, here I go, the village Nnadi Vaddeman, known then as Vardhamana puram was a small kingdom ruled by Gona Budha Reddy and his son Ganna Gannayya( Viplav kind people probably read book by Adivi Bapi Raju) under Kakatiya rulers during Rudrama Raju and Rudramadevi. One of the things I and you all as Telnaganites should be proud of these two guys who were also authors, who did the first telugu translation of Valmiki Rmayana from Sanskrit known as Ranganatha Ramayanam. In 1955 Diwakarla Venkatawadhani a telugu professor from OU deciphered from the stone slates prevalent in the village and the ones in Hanamkoda, proved that the Andhrites are wrong who were claiming that the epic was written in Andhra area, similar to what they think of Pothana whom they claim not from Telangana. Incidentally in the last few years we built the only one of two Sani DevuduTemples in entire A.P. (see -google photo) next to another Land mark Siva temple where there is a huge Nandi, because of which the name Nandi for our village. This Nandi is identical to the one at the thousand pillar temple in Warangal. B.N. Sastry in his book devoted more pages than any of the 100 plus kingdoms he covered by including Several pictures, slates and the history. It's mind boggling how this guy and people like Suravaram Pratap Reddy did the research with miute details in 50's and 60's, the history of prior to 1000 years to produce 500 pages of history, and with out any Internet.