TALAMANCHIPATNAM ::NANDYALA VEDIC BRAHMINS
HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE AT TALAMANCHIPATNAM SINCE SOME CENTURIES.
.EXCEPT Prathamasakha karnams and Shree Vaishnavites, there were no other brahmins
other than the vedic brahmins of Nandyala family HERE. .. Sri Addhala Subbarayudu
,the famous philosopher and spiritual man and his brother Chinna Subbarayudu, who was a
village accountant and Shri Narasimhachari family,archakas of Shri Anjaneya and
Sree Venkateswara temples were very pious and helpful to the society.Shri S.Yellareddy
and his brothers Narayanareddy, Ramireddy and Krishnareddy and thir sisters
Eswaramma and Seshamma were guardians and used to help others in abundant
measure.Sri Chandrasekharareddy,the present village Accounts officer is the son of
Sri Ramireddy in Talamanchipatnam Village in Jammalmadugu Tq, Cuddapah District .
The village was the headquarters of Palegar ( Representatve) in Sri Krishnadevaraya
Kingdom with seven storeyed palace and fort.The rare south faced giant size idol of
Anjaneya in the temple in the fort and the oldest Venkateswaraswamy temple beyond
the fort are worth seeing.Sri Venkatappa and his elder brother Pedda Subbaiah were
very famous and they were very rich.The youngest brother Sri Chinna Subbaiah was
the village postmaster.Chinna Venkatasubbaiah, who was called as Chinnanna and his
family members were very pious.This village was the headquaeters of a firka with a
revenue inspector and a police station with many constables.The Police station is at the
heart of the town beside the State Highway and the buses between Tadpatri and
Jammalamadugu stop there.This village is at a distance of 8 miles from Jammalamadugu
town.There are a few business people and merchants.Shri Nandyala Subrahmanyamayya
,SriVenkatappa Naidu and Sri Ramireddy were the great village panchayat presidents
.The villagers are very GOD fearing and are not involved in any factions and rivalries
.Unfortunately,the village has not developed at all even 50 years after independence, the
main reason is perhaps that the villagers are very simple and self contented.It is high time
that the Chandrababu Naidu Government take interest for the development of this kind of
villages which do not have any development whatsoever from the Govt.It is a pity that
though this village is the junction point for the passengers who want to travel by buses,
no attention was paid by the rulers after independence .With individual contributions,
the villagers constructed a small Shiva temple.The school has got only an elementary
school and lacks a high school.It would be of great interest to notice that Shri Vaishnavism
flourished in this town for some centuries in the past and the onlyfamily of Shri
U.Narasimhachari shifted to Chennapatnam(CHENNAI) andsome of the people of this family
are said to be in high positions in Tamilnadu.Similarly,the families of Chidhambarrao(in service)
andMr Kodhandaramaiah ,who studied LAW moved to Anantapur and practised
there.
South Indian Telugu Vydiki Brahmins with surname as NANDYALA are found mostly in
Rayalaseema districts of Cuddapah,Chittoor,Anantapur and Kurnool,Some of them are found
in Karnataka and Tamilnadu.They belong to Mulakanadu subsect among Vydikis..Infact,before
the reorganisation of states on the basis of language,Rayalaseema,which was lateron called as
BACKward in 20th century consisted of Bellary(B),Anantapur(A),Cuddapah © and Kurnool (K)
.In the word RAYALASEEMA, Rayalu denotes SREE KRISHNADEVARAYA of VIJAYANAGARA
dynasty,established by Sree Harihararayalu and Bukkarayalu with the blessings of the great
religious preceptor SREE VIDYARANYA, author of Vedanthapanchadasi,which is a treasure for
Hindu Philosopers.Infact,the boundaries of MULAKANADU are found in the stone engravings
IN a village called Vallur, near Kamalapuram in Cuddapah district.Due to the re-organisation of
states,many Mulakanadu brahmins learnt Tamil and Kannada respectively and settled down in
Tamilnadu and Karnataka though they speak Telugu in their houses.Our Nandyala family at
Talamanchipatnam traces back to Shri Nandyala Perambotlu as per the heriditary tree available
in the house.He had two sons namely Ayyambotlu and Garudambotlu.Sri Garudambotlu had no
children.Sri Ayyambotlu had two sons,Subbabotlu and Venkatramabotlu.The son of Sri
Venkatramabotlu was Subbabotlu and his wife was Subbamma.The son of Subbabotlu was
Venkatasubbaiah and his wife was Lalithamma.Sri Subbabotlu was a scholar in Sanskrit
and he COMPOSED SOME SANSKRIT ,which were appreciated by the great seer
Sri Brahmanandaswamy ,when they were shown to him by Sri Venkatasubbaiah,my grandfather
.The sons of Sri Venkatasubbaiah,my grandfather,who passed away in his 40s were Sri
Venkatramaiah,Lakshminarasaiah(my father) and Narayanasastry.Sri Narayanasastry
was given in adoption to Shri Nidhanapati Seshasastry of Tadpatri.My grandmother
Lalithamma predeceased her husband.There were three sisters for my father .All of them
were elder to the brothers.Subbamma,eldest was married to Yemmanuru Subrahmanyamaiah
of Dadhireddipalle.They had one son by name Sankaraiah,who was a village munsiff of
Madhavapuram village.Since both the parents of Sankaraiah died prematurely,Sri Sankaraiah
was brought up by his maternal uncles at Talamanchipatnam.Sri Sankaraiah married
Amruthamma,daughter of Subhraveti Pedda Subbaiah of Proddatur and she lived for long
years and passed away in 1983 in Hyderabad .Sri Yammanuru Subrahmanyam,her only son
was a school teacher in Anantapur district and however kept his family in Hyderabad for the
higher education of his sons.Out of his two sons and four daughters,the eldest by name
Ravi Shankar is working in the Central University and the second one Sri Sarath babu,who
studied his Engineering in Mathrushri and obtained his B.E degree is working in State
Government in Education Department.Lakshmamma,second sister of my father was
married to Sri Rameswaraiah of Arakatavemula and she died without any children.Infact
,Smt.Visalaakshamma,second wife of Sri Rameswaraiah used to visit our house frequently
when she was alive.She too had no childre.Smt.Balathripurasunadari,normally called as
BALAMBA was the youngest sister.She was married to Sri Sakalya Subrahmanyamaiah
of Tallamarpuram village,but lost her husband at a very early age.Dueto the premature demise
of both the parents,my father and his two brothers were brought up by Smt.Sakalya Balamba
,my maternal aunty.She shared both the sorrow and poverty along with her brothers throughout
her life.She lived for more than 80 years.She even moulded the children of her brothers
in spiritual ways and humble living .I was one of her lucky nephews to get properly trained
by her.Any amount of prayer to her is a drop of water in her ocean of compassion and love.
Sri Venkatasubbaiah,who died in his 60th year was the eldest son of my elder uncle (Peddhappa)
. He married at Harivaram and his father-in-law Sri Ramasastry was a versatile philosopher and
scholar. He spent his life time in doing paurohityam,which was done by my ancestors in almost
40 villages.He was a source of inspiration to all of us and also to the villagers with his abundant
knowledge in sastras,he learnt from Sri Koratamaddi Thippabotla Venkatasubbaiah garu of
Thallamarpuram near Proddatur.Sri Koratamaddi Venkatasubbaiah garu was a very learned scholar
of his times and he was honoured by the great sage of Kancheepuram Sr Chandrasekhara
Saraswathi,also called as PERI SWAMY.Both Venkatasubbaiah and Swamyji of Kancheepuram
lived for 100 years.Sri Venkatasubbaiah has four sons and a daughter, namely Subrahmanya
sarma(also scholar),Suryanarayana,Venugopal and Haranath and Sharadha.Sri Krishnamurthy
,my second cousin retired as a pharmacyst from the local Govt hospital at Jammalamadugu
and he is simple,wellread and helpful.The services,rendered by him as a compounder in the
hospital to the poor villagers is remarkable.He married the daughter of Sri Gollapinni
Ramakrishnasastry,famous poet and philosopher. Out of his four sons Suresh ,working in
LIC is the eldest and Chandramowli,Inspector of Police is the second,Raghunathasarma
,teacher is the third and the forth one is Vasudevamurthy,also a teacher.His daughter is
Kiranmayi.Sri Ramachandraiah,also called as Shyamanna by us is my younger cousin
,ofcourse elder to me.He has studied sastras and books on philosophy and performs the
religious rituals even in Brahmin families.His sons Babu and Sreenath are teachers.Sreenath
knows astrology and other occult sciences even in his early age.There are three daughters
namely Prabhavathi,Annapurna and Krishnaveni to Sri Ramachandraiah.My only cousin sister
and the only girl in our family at that time is Lalithamma is married to Sri Sadhu
Chandrasekharasarma of Kalpanayunicheruvu in Rayachoti taluq.Sri Sarma retired as
Head postmaster and settled at Cuddapah.He has three sons and two daughters.Sri Sadhu
Chandrasekharasarma is also adopted to Sri Sadhu Narasaiah,cousin to my maternal great
grand mother by name Seethamma of Bellary.Sri Tekuru Subrahmanyam ,her second son
represented Bellary loksabha in Parliament continuously from 1952 to 1967.
The second branch of Sri Subbabotlu ,son of Ayyambotlu is described in this para.
Subbabotlu had two sons, Narasambotlu and Ayyambotlu.Sri Narasambotlu had a son called
Peddasubbaiah.Peddasubbaiah had two sons Sadhanandam and Ramaiah.Sri Sadhanandham
married Lakshminarasamma,daughter of Sri Vellala Narasimhasastry and own maternal cousin
of my father.They were four girls for their parents.Syamalamba and Annapurnamma were married
to my elder uncle Venkatramaiah and Lakshminarasamma to Sadhanandham.The fourth one
Durgambamma was marreied at Chagalamarri .Durgambamma had only daughter by name
Subbalakshmamma who was married to the brother of Durgambamma and he is the mystic
person Sri Kashi Sasthrullu.They have a son by name Seshaphani sarma.Sri Sadhanandham
and Lakshminarasamma died without any childre.The second son of Peddhasubbaiah and
own brother of Sadhanandham is Ramaiah.Ramaiah was adopted to another Sasthurlu of
Nidhanapati family .The adopted father was the own brother of Sri Sesha sastrulu,who had
alrady adopted my younger uncle Sri Narayanasastry.Sri Nidhanapati Ramaiah had no sons
,but he had many daughters.The eldest daughter is Subbalakshumma,married to a Telugu
pandit locally.The second daughter is Rajamma,married to Yemmanuru Suryanarayana of
Dadhireddipalle and one was married to the son of Sri Joshyam Janardhanasastry,great
scholar and Chandi upasaka,who published the book Chandi sapthasathi (Devi Bhagavatham)
for Rama publishers.Coming to Ayyambotli,son of Subbabotlu,he had a son called
Venkatasubbaiah.Sri Venkatasubbaiah had only son named Subrahmanyamaiah who was
the president of Talamanchipatnam Panchayat.He played very active role before independence
.Sanjeevamma was the wife of Subrahmanyamaiah.Sri Subrahmanyamaiah and Sri Petnikota
Subrahmanyamaiah of Nossam village were co-sons-in-law.Sri Petnikota Subrahmanyam of
Nossam and the father of Sri Ganapathi Sacchidhanandaswamyji are brothers.Sri Venkatasubbaiah
,son of Subrahmanyamaiah did not have much education.He had lot of interest in Buses.He
started as a checking in the buses of Sri Obullareddy,brother of Sri Basireddy,former mininister
of Andhra Pradesh.He became owner of a bus due to the generosity of Sri Obulreddy who
derived lot of benefit through Venkatasubbaiah.Padmavathamma is the wife of Venkatasubbaiah
(familiarly known as Bus Owner ayya)..Padmavathamma is the sister of the famous 8 brothers
of Uyyalavada,jocularly called as BHAIRAVASTAKAM. Venkatasubbaiah had one son called
as Venkatasubbaiah(familiarly known as Bus Owner ayya).Ramamurthy,only son of
Venkatasubbaiah was a businessman at Proddatur and amassed lot of money and performed
the marriages of four of five of his daughters and died in 2001 in Hyderabad due to kidney failure
.What I am cocluding is that our cousins(gnathis for 10 days)are the four sons of Late
Venkatasubbaiah namely Subrahmanyam (working in (RTC) at Nandikotkur in Kurnool.
,his brother Suryanarayana (working in Andhra bank )at Kurnool and Venugopal(andhra bank)
at Kareemnagar and Harnath in Telephone Industry at Banglore.Others are Krishnamurthy
at Jammalamadugu and his sons and Ramachandraiah of Chinnakomerla and his sons
.Lalithamma,their sister is my first cousin at Cuddapah.The branch of Subbabotlu,elder son of
Ayyambotlu ended with daughters and now there are several branches to Venkatramabotlu.