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Tadipatri, Andhra Pradesh · 14.9200°, 78.0200°
A mid-sixteenth-century Vijayanagara temple at Tadipatri built by the chief Pemmasani Timmanayudu II, a Monument of National Importance whose stone Garuda mandapa is carved as a chariot with turning granite wheels, in the manner of the Vitthala temple at Hampi.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The presiding image is said to have been found in a tamarind tree - chinta in Telugu - which gave the god the name Chintala Venkataramana.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Vijayanagara
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