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The enchanting and very fragrant (Yellowish) Moguli Rekulu
A Science-Facts Episodes: No.22:
THE MATRIX
Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
M.Sc. Mathematical Physics, M.Sc. Nuclear
Physics, Ph. D (Physics): AU.
{Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University,
Kolhapur-416004, MS}
17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P.O.,
Visakhapatnam - 530002, AP, India. Mobile No.
9491902867.
lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com
trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com
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Volume 2017, Issue No.4b, Dt: 25 April 2017, Time:11:57:32 AM
ABSTRACT
The photograph made in Guntur of
his family, Prof. K. R. Rao, was one of outstanding memento of his simplicity
in spite, he secured both, D.Sc. (Madras) and D.Sc. (London). Prof. K. R. Rao’s
house was a matrix of ingenuity, with upstairs portion completely open,
with a just middle room offering an astounding view of the beach in the year
1932-1935. There were no constructs during those days and sea was visible
straight from our balcony. Walking along the pristine original beach of
Visakhapatnam was an admirable union with the nature of astonishing
rejuvenation. The children used to run after the rolling away on big spikes
along, the beach coast near to the ocean waves, which are the big size seeds,
almost one foot size, of the mogulsheria trees endowed with spikes of sharp
protrudes. The bush tree made the flowers not so easy to pluck. Alas, the
world war forced him, to leave the place and shift to Guntur. In his absence,
the house was occupied by British military people, and just in three year time
they ransacked, the entire house devoid of its electrical fittings, the entire
furniture, and cutlery of magnificent value. The Visakhapatnam city has an
outstanding and admirable history dating back to before the era of 250BC. The
sea has moved forward submerging almost four miles of open beach as told by
Prof. K. R. Rao. The FIRST WORLD WAR was
fought between the Kalinga Empire and the Asoka from North and moved towards
the south during 261BC. The Visakhapatnam Empire of Kotcherlakota Kings was
existing prior to 250BC and a fore runner of the Kalinga Empire. Sea faring
people assisted with the cult of Brahmin Rule of the sacred land. The
Dutch, Poland, French and British invaded India from 12th century of
its wealth and precious Jewellery, Gold and Silver ornaments and transferred
them to their countries. All the traces of old Minerva (the name
of cinema theatre where the first cinemas of an actress were a great
attraction) Beach had vanished with the advent of navy and more dominantly the
fishermen colonies that have sprung up, in recent days 2000-2017 and,
completely reoriented the old city. Buddhists were more concerned of
the view of the
Ocean from Visakhapatnam hill tops of Thotlakonda etc.,
and made Buddhists stupas, divine platforms and several bathing Ghats (some may
be seen even to-date).
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THE MATRIX OF PROF. K. R.
Rao’s FAMILY
My father and mother built their house
Narasimha Ashram during 1932 at Maharanipeta. P. O, Visakhapatnam and adored it
with excellent rose wood (obtained from Burma) furniture and the kitchen
totally modern of English style, with all ten chairs and luxurious table
spreads. House was a matrix of ingenuity, with upstairs portion
completely open, with a just middle room offering an astounding view of the
beach in the year 1932-1935. There were no constructs during those days and sea
was visible straight from our balcony. Alas, the world war forced him, to
leave the place and shift to Guntur. In his absence, the house was occupied by
British military people, and just in three year time they ransacked, the entire
house devoid of its electrical fittings, the entire furniture, and cutlery of
magnificent value.
Family
Photo: !945 in Guntur: Children seated on Big Jambukhana
Family of Prof K R Rao lap Lalitha, his wife
Mrs. Peramma lap Amarnath,
Dr. K. Venkata Rao and Dr.
K. V. N. Rao,
Vani (Demised at Nine years),
Dr. K. Rama Leela, Dr. K. Lakshmi Narayana
The matrix of the individual
and his family totally changed. The photograph
made in Guntur of Prof. K. R. Rao’s family, was one of outstanding memento of
his simplicity in spite, of he being a D.Sc. (Madras) and D.Sc. (London).
As a first appointee of Andhra
University, Waltair, he practically alone just carrying out his research, and
it was only after nine months the second appointment was made. He was walking
daily to and fro the University to his residence in Official Colony. The old
beach road, marked as double road, partly exists, a photo taken recently
displayed below. Left of the road is the beach. People used walk along the
Beach Shore stepping the waves’ right from Shipyard to the Palm Beach an
extension of almost six miles. As children we used to enjoy the extensive beach
from Maharanipeta to Palm Beach. There were several drinking water wells along
the beach coast almost every half-a-mile.
FLOWERING MOGULI REKULU OF
SCINTILLATING FRAGRANCE
Walking along the pristine original beach of
Visakhapatnam was an admirable union with the nature of astonishing
rejuvenation. The children used to run after the rolling away on big spikes,
which are the big size seeds, almost one foot size, of the mogulsheria (Mogul
Rekulu in Telugu) trees endowed with spikes of sharp protrudes. It was a unique
observation of the rolling football sized seeds, the beach coast near to the
ocean waves, along the coast from Palm Beach to the Maharanipeta down sea.
Flowering leaves were extensive and large in size and occur in bundles several.
Ladies used to adore the flowers leaves
of these trees, interwoven with the plaits of long hair do, with a
remarkable, exciting turning over, the protruding fragrance. The flowers were very
seasonal and very rare in occurrence. The bush tree made the flowers not so
easy to pluck, due to the thorny spikes over the entire tree, and the seeds
were very big with rolling pins around them and when fallen on the ground they
used to run over, miles long, the protruding spikes, due to the winds of the
sea.
The unforgettable scenario of the
virgin beach of Visakhapatnam extending from the harbour area to the Palm
beach, and extensive Andhra University quarters, along the beach road, and the
sizzling with occasional love-birds of human activity of the academic people,
of utmost concern and respect for their traditional family cults was a genuine
and orthodox family concern.
THE PRISTINE ORIGINAL BEACH
OF VISAKHAPATNAM
The beach was pristine original, with the
scattered trees of full bloom of thorny mogulsharies adorned with the only
30 feet road, built by British for their war movement of armour and vehicles. The
Maharajas of Pittapuram, Chemudu Rani, Orissa Kings, and many other Kings, had
their fabulous palaces built with the passage ways reaching up to the beach
shore.
The old road marked double is somewhat
preserved.
The
present day sea shore, from Maharanipeta down extending both the sides, one
going up to the Palm Beach, the other side stretching up to the Shipbuilding yard. The cross road links from the beach shore the
outskirts of the one town police station and to the Shiva temple. British built
their armour factories and secret gun foundries, and built the road from one
town police station, via the Mrs. A V N College, towards the Maharanipeta down
reaching, the Ocean of thirty feet road along the coast. Their armament factory
was located in the interior old city, also partly in Queen Mary’s High School,
beyond the Shiva Temple.
It was known that the Sea
was protruding, in to the sea, almost four miles and, people used to visit the
Visakhapatnam God “Visekheswara”. The many a side Gods and Goddesses sculptures
were totally ruined ransacked of their gold and precious ornaments and the
temple itself destroyed and shifted away to Burma. It still exists to-date in
Burma (Myanmar).
The entire main temple, with all
its gold and silver ornamental items were ransacked by the British invaders,
and the temple was cut and transported away to Burma and was rebuilt there
without any ornaments or decorations. Of course, some ancient people thought
that temple exists there in the Sea at Visakhapatnam and had made several
markings of its location. The sea has moved interior in to the city, by almost
four miles, and present sea shore is very small.
Before the 11 century, the
Kotcherlakota Kings ruled the land from present day old city, beyond the Queen
Mary’s and St. Alloy’s schools that were built by British rulers, to counter
away the ancient traditional school systems.
Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao studied
in the Queen Mary’s High School from 1909 to 1919 marked as an intelligent girl
by school records, completed 10th Standard. She remembers that she paid one
“Anna” whenever, escaped to converse in Telugu Language avoiding English.
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
It was fought between the Kalinga
Empire and the Asoka from North and moved towards the south. The vast military strength, wealth and
power of Kalinga were the main causes of jealousy for the Magadha Empire and
so, Ashoka wanted to re-establish the Magadh power in this state. In the 12th
year of Ashoka's reign, he sent a message to the ruler of Kalinga to surrender
his empire to the Mauryas. However, Kalingaraj or the ruler of Kalinga refused
to submit to the Mauryan Empire. Thus, followed a huge war between the two
rulers in 261 B.C. The military strength of Kalinga to be of about
one lakh, which consisted of 1700 horses, thousands of elephants, and 60
thousand soldiers. Kalinga army also had a powerful Naval Force. Ashoka
became victorious and, as a result ruled Kalinga. But at what cost? Ashoka saw
the blood filled battlefield with his own eyes. 1, 00, 000 men lost their lives
and 1, 50, 000 were taken as prisoners. An equal number of Mauryan soldiers
died. He saw the corpses of horses, elephants and soldiers in the battlefield.
Blood streams were seen everywhere. There were orphaned children crying.
Wounded people were rolling on the ground in pain. Countless people suffered
due to the war. The whole of Kalinga was destroyed in front of his own eyes. He
conquered Kalinga but there was not a single man left to live a life of
slavery. He could not stay there any longer and with a heavy heart, he led
his men back towards Pataliputra. He became a Buddhist and after Ashoka's death in 232 BC, the Mauryan dynasty came to
an end and the Mauryan Empire dissolved.
The Kalinga War is indeed one of the most
remarkable and memorable battles in Indian history.
The Visakhapatnam Empire of
Kotcherlakota Kings was existing prior to 250BC, and a fore runner of the
Kalinga Empire. Sea faring people assisted with the cult of Brahmin Rule of
the sacred land.
After the collapse of Kalinga
Empire, the people of Visakhapatnam moved away to distant lands of Prakasam
district and some migrated to South and others to the Maharashtra region. There
are several episodes of the valiant fighters (see a reference given below) and
most of the literature needs to be revived.
PALACE OF KOTCHERLAKOTA KINGS
On the top of magnificent hill
was located, the Palace of Kotcherlakota Kings, and the hill was broken down
into three parts and three religious complexes were installed. The narrow path
between the divided the hill a rail track was built to transport the looted
wealth of India.
The old Kingdoms hill was broken
down, in three parts by sinister motives by the British, to make a train track
way, to upload the looted wealth of Andhra and from other parts of India, on to
the train bogies.
The Kotcherlakota Kings ruled prior
to the Great Kalinga war, and a small Kingdom was survived, the great Kalinga
War of 261 BC. It existed even prior and extended over, the present day, Mrs.
A.V. N. College (where the ancient Shiva Temple exists), for several years past
261 BC. The beach was four miles away into the Bay of Bengal.
Over the years the sea, moved
forward on to the shores of present day Visakhapatnam.
PORTUGUESE, DUTCH AND FRENCH
PEOPLE
Earliest were the Portuguese, who
made visits to India during time of Krishnadevaraya King, mostly of two kinds
of people, one type are the genuine traders and others were literal looters and
dacoits. Dutch people were mostly dacoits who were secretly pilfering away the
unprotected wealth of the ancient Rushes’. The dacoits were plundering the hill
and forest dwelling Rushes’ of their wealth and golden and jewellery of fine
art works. Part of Portuguese, were genuine traders who were trading the
spices, and other precious ingredients of cooking and eatables.
Much loot was
an organised activity since 12th century in India, whose people
never doubted the foreigners who were regarded as the divine and pious people,
following their ancient philosophy. Dutch people never made any attempt of
trade but solely were looters of India’s wealth by deceit and conquering the
unprotected traders in India. Their
presence even to-date visible due to their cemeteries built in Bhimavaram and
other places. French during the time of British in India were defeated by the
British and were driven away from India though some pockets of their existence,
even to-date may be identified and people of mixed marriages. Light houses with
oil lamps, along the beaches in India were built to help the ship owners of
trade and consequently the tyrants. Many episodes of these tyrants and their
exploits without paying any returns to the people in India are well known. Their
story is to be studied only by great stride and concentration.
MAHATMA GANDHI ADDRESS BEACH
During 1932, the open beach
from the present day harbour to the Bheemunipatnam was barn, with the totally
open beach shore of Minerva talkies, situated on other side of the coastal
battery. It was in that field of the
beach, Mahatma Gandhi addressed the people of Andhra. That beach was
approachable by a direct road from the main town of Visakhapatnam, i.e., from
the Visakhapatnam Goddess Mahalakshmi Temple. Only remnant of the ancient
city was the so-called burujupeta area in the town. The main Road of Visakhapatnam
has been retained linking the Hill fort of Kotcherlakota Kings, but expected
these days to be made as hundred feet road, a proposal in 2017. Many Gold and
Silver articles, selling shops adorn the city on this road.
All the traces of old Minerva (the
name of cinema theatre where the first cinemas, of the famous actors, were a
great attraction) Beach, especially the many branched Palm tree, an unusual
site, next to the Minerva talkies, had vanished with the advent of navy and
more dominantly the fishermen colonies that have sprung up, in recent days
2000-2017 and, completely reoriented the old city.
THE FAMOUS TEMPLE OF VISAKHA
The excellent beach of old
Visakhapatnam had an ivory sales shop, a palm unique tree of several branches,
a vast extensive shore extending, in the olden days, into the sea for almost 4
miles. A temple there with big Golden Gates, closing sound of it was a
reminder to people of Visakhapatnam that it was 12 O'clock in the night. Prof. K. R. Rao narrated the existence of the Grand Temple in the sea almost four miles inside and people used to visit it, in olden times people, in Visakhapatnam were aware of the closing of the Big Golden Gates, of the temple at exactly 12 O'clock midnight every day. The
Visakhapatnam was a Kingdom of Kotcherlakota, Niyogi Brahmins, who were
conquered by the Gajapatis of Odisha (Orissa) Kingdom, during the 11 century,
and who were next defeated by the King Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagar Empire in
the 13 century and, the King married the daughter of Gajapatis, and lived for
almost three years, there at the Sea coast of Visakhapatnam. But he ordered,
his army of about 1000 elephant with manhunts’ to ransack the entire vegetative
growth of the town of Visakhapatnam and vehemently ordered, creation of the
plantation of castor plants.
BUDDHISTS VIEW
Buddhists were more concerned of the
view of the Ocean from Visakhapatnam hill tops of Thotlakonda etc.,
and made Buddhists stupas, divine platforms and several bathing Ghats (some may
be seen even to-date). A unique
feature of Bojjannakonda which was excavated under the aegis of Alexander Rim
in 1906, is that it shows all the three phases of Buddhism, i.e Hinayana,
Mahayana and Vajrayana. The main attraction here is the imposing figures of the
Buddha, seated in a meditation-posture and the stupa. The main stupa was first
carved out of rock and then encased in bricks. The hillock Lingalakonda, is
located to the west of Bojjannakonda.
Buddhists never entered the
area of Kotcherlakota Kings extending, from the now divided hill on which
the Kotcherlakota Fort was existing. Of
course, Buddha himself was fascinated by the Ocean view of Visakhapatnam, and
presumed married a lady descended from Royal Family in Visakhapatnam. This was
when he was a Royal King and married the damsel from Visakhapatnam. This
supports the idea that Kingdom was existing with several dwellers of ancient
past in the city of Visakhapatnam. Moreover, it establishes the fact that
Andhra Kingdom was dating back to the years of Buddha King.
MORALE: The Matrix is an
invisible perplexity of animate and inanimate things that exhibit amazing
properties of a wide variety of complexity.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The
author expresses his deep indebtedness to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) and to
Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao for their sustained stimulation and amazing support
for my research endeavours.
REFERENCES
1. Niyogi Rayasam Venkanna
Veeragadha, written by KOLANA dated 29th March 2009 time 7:30pm
based on (a). A. Rangaswami Saraswati, Research Scholar, dated 6th
Feb 1919, book by S. Krishna Swami Ayyangar, Publication by Unit of Madras.
A Rangaswami Saraswati collected many Sanskrit and Telugu poems dating Re Era
of “Vidyarnya Swami”. (b). Meckanji Telugu/Sanskrit poetic Collections.
2. Vaishekeswara written by
KOLANA 25-10-2009, both in pdf and MS word files.
3. Telugu 13:02:2017 at
10:32AM on 06-03-2017 at 21:14 (A Folder)
4. Telugu Stories and poems
sent to Shri Parabrahma Murthy (USA) (a) First dated 9-9-2009 entitled “Wife
& Husband Intimacy” 4 pages script. (b) “Godfather Telugu Story” written by
KOLANA dated 11-07-2010 at 10:17 AM pdf file: 1548 kB and Microsoft Word
97-2003 document: 2324 kB.
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