Migration –Vodeel to Bendrala

Narasimha Irwathraya -1  being the eldest son of Venkatesha Irwathraya & Mahalakshmi, went in search of a temple archak job for his independent livelihood and ultimately landed at Bendrala. Then the ‘Sthanik’ Brahmins of ‘Shivottu, Madrottu & Charmadi’ were very powerful land lords wielding authority in the surrounding villages. Under their patronage, he secured some archak job and started pourohithya (priesthood), ‘Mantravaada & Jyothishya’ at Bendrala. At the same time, the Bailangady king also wanted some knowledgeable Brahmin for his needs. Narasimha Irwathraya thus cultivated links with the King’s palace also.  He was living in a house at Bendrala Pithilu (at the edge of ‘Thimaru’ paddy field) near ‘Kailmaru’. At present that residential place of ‘Bendrala Pithilu’ has vanished and converted in to agricultural land owned by ‘Angara Gowda’ of the Petrol tanker famous. Narasimha Irwathraya -1 took some agricultural lands on lease basis (at that time various lease systems like ‘Moola Geni, Vayide Geni & Chala Geni’ were in vogue).  He had two sons namely Venkatramana Irwathraya & Kittanna Irwathraya.

Narasimha Irwathraya -1 : 1) Son - Venkatramana Irwathraya

                                             2) Son - Kittanna Irwathraya 

After Narasimha Irwathraya -1, his children Venkatramana Irwathraya and Kittanna Irwathraya were living at Bendrala.  They were illiterates, but continued their family profession of Mantravaada and small scale ‘pourohithya’ and ‘archak’ job along with cultivation of paddy fields in a small way. They were very much afraid of the then powerful Sthanik Brahmins. It is told that their literacy was limited to the extent of putting their respective signatures as “Venkatramana Irwathrayana Ruju” and “Kittanna Irwathrayana Ruju” wherever and whenever these Sthanik Brahmins ordered & wished. Many stories are heard to how their illiteracy was exploited by the Sthanik Brahmins. 

The powerful Sthanik Brahmin of Shivottu (Charmady) was famous as Shivottu Patel and at that time Shivottu Patel named as Anantha Padmanabha Rao was very notorious. The Prime Ministers of Bailangady Kingdom were also Sthanik Brahmins. The last King of the Moola Dainasty of Bailngady was Shantharaj Moolar. Tha last Prime Minister of Bailangady Kingdom was Sthanika Venkataramana. He was a Bachelor. He was living along with his younger brother named as Sreenivasa at  Bendrala Pithilu. Both the brothers were in love with a concubine named Maalu, who was living at the place in Kudru, where earstwhile house of our worker tenant Lokayya was situated. Because of their common lover, the bachelor brothers Sthanika Venkataramana and Sreenivasa got developed mutual hatred & enimity. It is told that, they performed Maata (mantra and witchcraft to destroy enimies) agaist each other, and ultimately died. Nobody came to know of their death for four days. Only when their dead bodies started stinking and the foul smell spread, the people around the place came to know of the silent death of the brothers. There were no any legal heirs to these two brothers. But as soon as the news of their death reached Shivottu Patel Padmanabha Rao’s ears, he became active immediately, and came running to Bendrala. He prevented the gathering from entering the house of the deceased, telling that he was the legal heir of the deceased brothers, and he only had the right of performing their cremation funerals. After performing their funeral, he forcefully took possession of all their agricultural properties. Some of such agricultural properties included those cultivated by the Irwathraya brothers – i.e Venkatramana Irwathraya  and  Kittanna Irwathraya  which were also taken away by the Shivottu Patel, which rendered the Irwathraya Brothers landless and homeless. When Irwathraya brothers were preparing to leave the place, Bailangady King intervened, because there was no othe religible  Brahmin family in and surrounding villages to become Palace Priests. Because of King’s intervention, ultimately Irwathraya brothers were allowed to cultivate a small stretch of land and allowed to continue their living at Bendrala Pithilu.

Venkatramana Irwathraya married Jalaja. She died without any issues. Then he married one more girl, who also died with out any children. He married again, and his third wife also died without any children. Thus the unfortunate Venkatramana Irwathraya was a dejected fellow losing all his three wives without any children. Names of his second and third wives could not be traced so far.  He was prepared to marry again to try his luck, provided any bride would be available & agree.

Venkatramana Irwathraya’s younger brother Kittanna Irwathraya married a girl named Kaveramma, who was the daughter of Kallayanajji. The famous Kalyanajji  hailed from Puthraya family of Naala village. Unfortunately Kittanna Irwathraya  also had no issues.