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4 unusual facts about Kolleru Lake


Kolleru Lake

But by the early 16th century, the Gajapatis lost great portions of their southern dominion to Vijayanagar and Golconda.

The royal Oriya army general sacrificed his own daughter to propitiate Gods and ensure his success against Muhammadan and her name was "Perantala Kanama".

Two copper plates of the early Pallava dynasty have been found in the lake, tracing its history to Langula Narasimha Deva (Langulya Gajapathi Raju) an Ganga Vanshi Odisha king, (Oddiya/Oriya raju) .

The Suryavanshi Gajapatis of Odisha, on the height of their power in the 15th century, ruled over a kingdom extending from the Ganges river in the north to the Kaveri in the south under Gajapati Kapilendra Deva.


Heliodiaptomus kolleruensis

It was described in 1981 from specimens collected in the Krishna River, Lake Kolleru and bodies of water in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India.


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