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Local story · 2 tellings · contested

The Rama found in an anthill

A tribal woman finds Rama's images in an anthill on the Godavari; a tax official builds the temple with state money and is jailed for it.

Pokala Dhammakka, Rama, Bhadrachala Ramadasu, Bhadrachalam

Pan-India South India