Vellala is a small village in the state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

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Kadapa Kadapa (colonial spelled Cuddapah) is a city in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located in the Rayalaseema region, and is the district headquarters of YSR Kadapa district. As of the 2022 Census of India, the city had a popul ...

District. The village got its name from the locally famous "Vellala Sanjevaraswami ", a temple dedicated to Lord

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. This temple is at the place where Lord Hanuman stopped for some water while flying to Lanka carrying the Sanjivani mountain.

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Villages in Kadapa district {{Kadapa-geo-stub