Gudluru

Gudluru Netrapuri
village
Gudluru Location in Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates: [//tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Gudluru&params=15_04_N_79_54_E_type:city_region: 15°04′N 79°54′E / 15.067°N 79.900°E / 15.067; 79.900]Coordinates: [//tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Gudluru&params=15_04_N_79_54_E_type:city_region: 15°04′N 79°54′E / 15.067°N 79.900°E / 15.067; 79.900]
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Prakasam
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	523281
Vehicle registration	AP27
Nearest city KAVALI (spsr nellore district)	Kandukuru
Lok Sabha constituency	Nellore
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Kandukuru

Gudluru/Gudlur is a village in the Kandukur taluk of Prakasham district of Andhra Pradesh, India and used to be called Netrapuri. It is easily accessible via bus from Kandukur.

History

The Telugu poet Yerrana was born there in the 14th century AD. The name of Gudluru is basically 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 Andhra Pradesh with the surname Gudluru. The Brahmins tribe in this place are continuing to carry on the legacy of the ancient poetry composed in this place.

There was mass migrations from this town during the 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 which share Gudluru as their surname. It is speculated that this town had historical significance as it has warrior clans and priestly clans as the main occupants of the town.

Gudluru village older name is Netrapuri

In Gudluru, there is a famous old library named Earrapragada branch library. The library was established in 1952. Well known librarian Mr. Kappaganthula Venu Gopala Krishna Murthy is the Head Librarian there.

Main Library

• Earrapragada Library (SINCE 1952)

BANK

• Syndicate Bank

SCHOOLS

• Z.P.H SCHOOL
• Sri Chaitanya High School
• Abhyudaya High School
• Good Shepherd School

COLLEGES

• M.S.R Junior College

Geography

Original name: Gudlūru geographical location: Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Asia geographical coordinates: 15° 4' 0" North, 79° 54' 0" East. Upputeru and Manneru rivers pass in a northeasterly direction to the Gudluru where the ground of the village is situated high above sea level. Upputeru passing at a distance of 1.5 km where as manneru is passing at a distance of 4 km. The majority of the village population are farmers who have fertile lands beside these rivers.

Gudluru – Nilakanteswaraswamy aalayam,VISHNAVAALAYAM

This sacred Siva kshetra has given birth to Errana, one of the great poets, who translated Vysa's Mahabharata into Telugu. This fine, old temple built during the reign of Maurya Chandragupta contains a grand image of Errana and is zealously admired in many works of literature. 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 altitude 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 which (even now) give evidence that it was a fortified place in the 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 landmark is an equally large and ancient Vaishnvaite temple{ Near to Kshatriyas(rajulu) Houses } (temple for Vishnu) situated in the mitta palem of Gudluru in addition to the above said shiva temple. This evidence suggests that the village populace has had equal groups of Shaivism and Vaishnavism for many centuries.

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 to date as an evidence of the rich history of this village. During the monsoon seasons local people frequently find idols of the Gods which turn up due to the rising water. Many of idols are regrettably abandoned without care rather than being turned over to a temple or museum.

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).

Villages in Gudluru Mandal

1. Gudluru
2. Parakondapaduagraharam
3. Parakondapadu
4. Dappalampadu
5. Gundlapalem
6. Kothapeta
7. pajarla
8. Swarnajipuram
9. Mogalluru
10. Basireddypalem
11. Darakanipadu
12. Puretipalle
13. Venkampeta
14. Chinalateripi
15. Nayudupalem
16. Ammavaripalem
17. Potluru
18. Mocherla
19. Ravur
20. Chevuru
21. Chemidedapadu
22. RC Agraharam
23. chenchireddypalem

Theatres

1.Saptagiri Srinivasa 35MM

Media

All major Telugu & English newspapers like Eenadu, Sakshi, Andhra Jyothi, and Vaartha & the Hindu,deccan chronicle are read, which are published from Ongole. The popular TV channels are state wide Telugu cable channels such as Gemini, Maa TV, ETV, NTV,TV9,CN,TV10,ABN,Discovery and all other news channels. Hindi, English Movie channels, and local cable channels are also available. There are always cinemas for entertainment and have the latest movies. There are also sometimes roadshows.

Language

Telugu, the regional language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, is spoken in Gudluru.

President of Villages

• 1996 – 2001 Mekapotula Raghaviah (TDP)
• 2001 – 2006 VIYAJA LAXMI (congress )
• 2006 – 2011 Para Janardhan Gudluru (congress)
• 2013 – 2018 SUNDARAM (TDP)

Gudlur Mandal Paresh Precedent

• 2001 – 2006 ongle malakondaiah
• 2006 – 2011 Cheerla Malakondiah Swarnajipuram

Gudluru Mandala congress party prsedent

2oo1 – 2011 Cheerla Malakondaiah swarnajipuram

Aatma Chairmen Kandukuru Division

2011 -2016 Cheerla Malakondaiah swarnajipuram

Kandukur Assembly Constituency

Kandukur is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. There were 176,773 registered voters in Kandukur constituency for the 1999 elections.

List of Elected Members:^[1]

• 2009 and 2014 – Manugunta Maheedhar Reddy (Municipal Minister-2011)
• 2004 and 2009 – Manugunta Maheedhar Reddy
• 1999 and 2004 – Dr. Divi Siva
• 1994 and 1999 – Dr. Divi Sivaram
• 1989 and 1994 – Manugunta Maheedhar Reddy
• 1983 and 1985 – Sri Manugunta Adinarayana Reddy
• 1978 – 1983 – Divi Kondaiah Chowdary
• 1972—1978 – Manugunta Adinarayana Reddy
• 1967–1972 – Nalamothu Chenchurama Naidu
• 1962–1967 – Nalamothu Chenchurama Naidu
• 1957–1962 – Divi Kondaiah Chowdary

References

http://www.hindubooks.org/templesofindia/siva_to_be_adored/andhra_pradesh/gudlur.htm http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vinod/maps/AndhraPradesh/Gudlur.html http://www.maplandia.com/india/andhra-pradesh/prakasam/gudluru/