Vanipenta
Village
YSR Kadapa district
Andhra Pradesh
Village in Proddatur taluk (now Proddatur mandal), about fifteen miles east of Proddatur on the road to Porumamilla. The 1915 Cuddapah Gazetteer gives its population as 4,360 and calls it 'after Proddatur, the largest village in the taluk'. Included under the village tier because the Gazetteer ties an Arya Vysya (Komati) temple and a Komati-financed industry to it. The 4,360 figure is the Gazetteer's own count and is not recorded as a modern population.
Community institutions
Temple of Kanyakamma (Kanyaka Parameswari), Vanipenta
Temple ·
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The 1915 Cuddapah Gazetteer states: 'In the main street in the centre of the village is a large temple of Kanyakamma erected by the Komati community who specially worship this goddess. It is of modern construction and built of Cuddapah slabs. The only temple to this deity in the taluk exceeding this in size and importance is the one at Proddatur.' Kanyakamma is the Kanyaka Parameswari of the Arya Vysya tradition. Whether the temple survives today was not verified.
Vanipenta metal-working industry and trading centre
Merchant_quarter ·
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The 1915 Gazetteer records that the village's metal-working industry, whose workers were 'principally Musalmans', was 'financed by Komatis, through whose enterprise the village has also become a trading centre of some local importance.'
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Source
Madras District Gazetteer, Cuddapah, Vol. I (1915) - full text via Internet Archive
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