Pulivendula, the headquarters of the taluk, is situated on the road from Kadiri to Muddanur, being twenty-seven miles north of Kadiri and twenty-three miles south of Muddanur railway station. It is a fast developing town in the district with a population of more than 1,00,000. It is also famous for its local fund dispensary (Santa). The name Pulivendula is said to denote the ‘the haunt or abode of tigers,’ and may have been appropriate to the place some hundreds of years ago; but it is certain that there are no tigers nowadays in the Palakonda hills to the south of the town nor indeed in any portion of the taluk. The Pulivendula vanka, a tributary of the Mogameru, flows through the town, and a number of spring channels rising in its vicinity provide good irrigation to the low-lying fields bordering the village on the north and east, where betel-vines, plantains and other fruits, as well as flowers, are grown in some profusion. Read the rest of this entry »
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