Malagangu pada

~ Pata Paderu in Visakhapatnam~

Modamamba festival is one of the most important tribal festival celebrated commemorating the centuries- old relations between rulers of plains (Vaddadi) and hills (Nandapur, presently near Jeypore of Orissa) hills,
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and the marriage of Moda Kondamma's son Sanjiva Raja, bringing people together.
"At the festival,an odia song narrating the marital relations btn Nandapura and Vaddadi ruling families in 14-15th centuries, the subsequent rejection of a Vaddadi ruler to allow his daughters
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to marry princes of Nandapuram and their "Gandharva vivaha' is narrated. The Vaddadi ruler humiliates his sons-in-law resulting in their suicide.
Moda Kondamma is pregnant by then. Later, her son Sanjiva Raja's marriage is performed with Malagangu overcoming the
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caste and other restrictions after the intervention of Nanadapura queen, There is historic evidence that there were relations between the ruling families of Vadadi and Nandapura,
The Nandapura rulers were one of the first to donate liberally to the Visakha radhakrishna temple

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