- Tadepalli
Tadepalli is a town in the Gunturu district of the southern
India n state ofAndhra Pradesh . The origin of the name is believed to be related to the palm 'Tathi ' tree and 'palle' meaning village. A Tadepalli P O-522 501 is on the southern bank of theKrishna River ,(Vijayawada city is opposite on the North bank) in Gunturu District. Tadepalli is the Mandal headquarters.Tadepalli also refers to a
smartha vaidiki velanadu telugu brahmin family which extends back in time to the 15th century (perhaps earlier), believed to have originated in "Tadepalli agraharam", with thousands of members in hundreds of branches of this family scattered all over India and abroad. No comprehensive genealogy or records tracing back the origins and major migrations of this clan exists at present,although it is known that this clan is scattered throughout the United States and various Indian urban centres such as Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Nagpur.----
Tadepalli village majority people (Agriculture Based) are Reddy cast (Basically, but now lot of other people migrated to this land) domination. The Reddy's spreading and ruling the location from 12th century, evidence of the same avail on the Undavalli caves.(rathi sasanam). A few Surnames of Reddy cast are Kallam, Garugu, Donthi Reddy, Bonthu ,Bhimavarapu Etc.. Initial days these people believed in Buddhism, later shifted to Hinduism.This village's people have strong relations with Nunna, Kollipara, Telaprolu (another Ancient Buddhism Village), Pedhaogirala, Badrirajupallem, Kondapalli, Nuthaki etc..Surrounding villages of Krishna River (both Krishna and Guntur Districts)Now it is developed a lot, almost a part of Vijayawada City.
Few Villages of Tadepalli mandal.
# KunchanapalliHard working Kapu and Reddy caste agriculture based village. Really hard working ones.
# SitangaramWell Known Chinna Jiyar Swamy located his ashram here.
# UndavalliAncient caves are there.
# PenumakaSmall agriculture based village.tadepalli is a beautiful village and it is some developed in all villageshere now padma sali (caste) peoples also living for many years. they conduct their festival very well. it's become on February. There is a temple called bhavana rushi.
External links
* [http://static.namesdatabase.com/names2/T/A/Tadepalli.html Tadepalli in the Names Database]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
