| Gudluru | |
| — village — | |
| Coordinates | |
| Country | India |
| State | Andhra Pradesh |
| District(s) | prakasam |
| Nearest city | Kandukuru |
| Parliamentary constituency | Ongole |
| Assembly constituency | Kandukuru |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
Gudluru/Gudlur is a village in the Kandukur taluk of Prakasham district of Andhra Pradesh, India and was called Netrapuri in the past and is accessible by bus from Kandukur.
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The telugu poet Yerrana was born there in the 14th century AD. The name of Gudluru originated from two words, Gudulu and vooru (In telugu, Gudulu: Temples and vooru: village). The name of the village itself signifies that it has been the home of many [temple]s since ancient times. Another prominent telugu poet, Vennelakanti Surana, born here in 16th A.D, translated the Sanskrit Vishnu purana into telugu named "Andhra Sri Vishnu Puranam" describing the incarnation of Lord vishnu. There is a prominent group of Brahmins in this village and in some other places of Andhrapradesh with the surname Gudluru. The Brahmins tribe in this place are continuing to carry the legacy of the ancient poetry born in this place.
There were mass migrations from this town during early part of the 20th century because of drought. Several agrarian communities moved from this town to more fertile and water-abundant towns between Nellore and Tirupati. There are several communities in Andhra that share Gudluru as their surname. It is speculated that this town had historical significance as it had worrior clans and priestly clans as the main occupents of the town.
Gudluru village old name is Netrapuri
Original name: Gudlūru geographical location: Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Asia geographical coordinates: 15° 4' 0" North, 79° 54' 0" East. Upputeru and Manneru rivers are passing in the direction of north east to the Gudluru where the ground of the village is situated in upper level. Upputeru passing at a distance of 1.5 km where as manneru is passing at a distance of 4 km. The majority population of this village is farmers whom have fertile lands besides to these rivers.
This sacred Siva kshetra has given birth to Errana, one of the great poets, who translated Vysa's Mahabharata into Telugu. This good old temple built during the reign of Maurya Chandragupta contains a grand image of Errana and is adored by literatures with great zeal. The Sivalinga surprises the devotees by its colour - it is white on one side and red on the other side. According to legend, the linga was drinking the milk of a cow in the form of a serpent, and when a cowherd beat the snake, it turned into white Sivalinga, and hence the red colour indicating the blood that came out when received the blow of the cowherd by his axe. Another special feature that strikes the eye here is the enormous tank in which thousand elephants according to local version were swimming at a time. It contains the beautiful images of Chandi, Subrahmanya, Virabhadra, Kumaraswamy etc
According to the elders, this village has 100 temples and 100 lakes. In this flat surface village, a portion of the village has significantly higher level to the remaining village (nearly 2-4 meters) where obliviously some people are living now., named Mittapalem (mitta(in telugu) : a surface which upper to larger plain surface). The mud of the upper village shows some old mud constructed areas (even now) gave evidence that it is a fortified place in olden days. A big lake (mentioned above) is situated as boundary to the mitta palem at one side which is used as bathing place/for drinking water to the elephants and horses for the fort needs (name of this lake is “Yenugula doruvu” (Yenugu (telugu): means elephant and Doruvu(telugu): a lake).
Another important thing is an equally big and old vaishnvaite temple (temple for Vishnu) situated in the mitta palem of Gudluru in addition to the above said shiva temple. It gave evidence that the village people have equal groups of Shaivism and Vaishnavism since age old years.
In addition to these two big temples, several temples like Pratapa veeraanjaneya swami temple, a completely ruined chennakesava temple (it has a prominent history), Veerabadhra, Vinayaka, ankamma, poleramma etc. and several lakes exist till date as an evidence to the rich history of this village. It is frequent phenomena to find the idols of the Gods by the village people during the each year during the monsoon seasons. Many of idols are abandoned without care and temples.
This village is surrounded by several tiny villages (baireddy palem, venkam peta, mogulluru, chinalateripi, pedalateripi, Janakam peta, narasapuram, Gullapalem, chemidapadu, potluru, kottapeta, Rajupalem, Ammavaripalem, R.C.agraharm, Pajarla etc.), hence it was also known as "Nethrapuri" (Nethram(Sanskrit)=Kannu/Guddu(in telugu)= eye(English).
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All major Telugu news papers like Eenadu, Sakshi, Andhra Jyothi and Vaartha are read, which are published from Ongole. The popular TV Channels are state wide Telugu cable channels Gemini, Maa TV, ETV ,Teja and all other news channels, Hindi, English Movie channels, and local cable channels are available. There are always movie theaters for entertainment and have the latest movies. There are roadshows sometimes.
Telugu, the regional language of the state of Andhra Pradesh is spoken in Gudluru.
Kandukur is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. There were 1,76,773 registered voters in Kandukur constituency for the 1999 elections.
List of Elected Members:[1]
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