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 This event is recorded in a book called the "Victories of Krishna Deva Rai" and other historical texts. The Kurnool Manual also refers to this, though with a difference in date.

A short description of Velugodu is not out of place here. Velugodu belongs to Nandi-kotkur taluk of modern Kurnool district and is situated forty miles east of Kurnool, fifteen miles north of Nandyal and forty miles south of Srisailam. The fort itself is three-fourth in ruins.

The once Siva's temple has been changed to Kesava's, and a throne is preserved in it. The throne is made of Kuruvinda Mani (a precious stone) and is 6 by 4 by 3 feet. It has thirty-two pictures artistically arranged around it. Four lions are carved on its sides and in the centre of it is a peculiar hollow which can be filled with water to make the seat cool in summer. In form, it is like Delhi throne or that at Hyderabad. A river flows close by, and the place commands very fine