BHADRACHALAM - SRI RAMAALAYAM  

This exciting historical evidence begins with the appointment of Kancherla Gopanna, an ordinary god-minded man as Tahsildar to the Revenue taluq of Bhadrachalam, under the sovereignty of Tanisha of Golkonda, a staunch Muslim, yet a renowned ruler, famous for religious tolerance, who ultimately became instrumental in throwing a halo round the archamurti of the sacred shrine.

To start with, Gopanna was a devout brahmin in whom the theistic impulses were predominant right from the birth. He hailed from a village Nelakondapalli of Khammam district. He was poor - unable to see the both ends meet, tried however much by right means. Strangely enough, he had fortune in the persons of two maternal uncles Akkanna and Madanna, who were in the service of Abdul Hassan Tanisha, the Nawab of Nizam then, as ministers. It so coincided that the Tahsildar of Bhadrachalam taluq died then. To filling in the vacant post, Gopanna was preferred.

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