Addanki is a town and a Mandal

Subdivisions of India

The Administrative divisions of India are Indian subnational administrative units; they compose a nested hierarchy of country subdivisions. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision The Administrative divisions of India are Indian...

 headquarters in Prakasam district

Prakasam district

Prakasam District is an administrative district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, in India. The district headquarters is located at Ongole City...

, in the state of Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

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 in India

India

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Geography

Addanki town located at 15.8167°N 79.9833°E. It has an average elevation of 24 meters (82 ft).
It is located between Guntur

Guntur

Guntur , is a city and a municipal corporation in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, located to the north and west of the Bay of Bengal. It is approximately to the south of the national capital, New Delhi and south east of state capital, Hyderabad. Guntur is the fourth largest city in Andhra...

 (70 km) and Ongole(40 km) and Narsaraopet (50 km) three major towns.

Assembly Constituency

Addanki is an assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh. There were 2,04,757 registered voters in the Addanki constituency in the 2009 elections. Addanki, Ballikurava, Korisapadu, Panguluru, and Santamaguluru, these 5 mandals are comes under Addanki Assembly Constituency. Addanki assembly comes under Bapatla parlament constituency.

List of Elected Members:

S.NO	MLA NAME	YEAR	PARTY
1	Nagineni Venkaiah	1957	Kisan Lok Party
2	Patibandla Ranganayakulu	1962	CPI
3	Dasari Prakasam	1967	Congress
4	Dasari Prakasam	1972	Congress
5	Karanam Balarama krishna Murthy	1978	Congress
6	Bachina Chenchu Garataiah	1983	TDP
7	Bachina Chenchu Garataiah	1985	TDP
8	Jagarlamudi Raghava Rao	1989	Congress
9	Bachina Chenchu Garataiah	1994	TDP
10	Bachina Chenchu Garataiah	1999	TDP
11	karanam balarama krishna murthi	2004	TDP
12	Gottipati Ravi Kumar(Bujji)	2009	Congress

Kavitrayam - Errana

Errana was a great Telugu poet in the court of Prolaya Vemareddy (1325–1353), the founder of Reddy dynasty. Prolaya Vema Reddy established The Reddy Dynasty (1325–1424) with capital of Addanki of his Kingdom. Later it was shifted to Kondaveedu. Yerrana was also known as Yellapregada or Errapregada. He was honored with the title Prabandha Parameshwara (the supreme lord of Prabandha) and Shambudasusu. He belongs to the Kavitrayam (Trinity of poets) who translated the Mahabharata. He was a poet in Peda komati Vema Reddy's court. He completed the translation by finishing the remaining part of 3rd chapter.

The Sanskrit Mahabharata

Mahabharata

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....

 was translated into Telugu over a period of several centuries (11th to 14th centuries AD). Errana was one of the kavitrayam

Kavitrayam

Kavitrayam is a Telugu expression for trinity of poets. Kavitrayam popularly refers to the poets who translated the great epic Mahabharata into Telugu. The trinity consists of Nannayya, Tikkana and Yerrapragada.-Nannayya:...

 (the trinity of poets) who translated Mahabharatam. The other two poets were Nannaya and Tikkana. Nannaya translated two and a half parvamulu (Chapters) of Mahabharatam. Tikkana translated the remaining chapters starting from the 4th, leaving the half finished third parvam, Aranya Parvamu (the chapter of Forest), for Errana. Errana started the remaining half of the Aranya Parvamu with the style of Nannaya and ended it with the style of Tikkana as a bridge between the parts translated by Nannaya and Tikkana

Tikkana

Tikkana was born into a family of Shaivite family during the Golden Age of the Kakatiya dynasty. He was the second poet of the "Trinity of Poets " that translated Mahabharatamu into Telugu over a period of centuries. Nannaya Bhattaraka was the first, though he translated only two and a half...

. He used half Sanskrit and half Telugu in his Telugu translation of Sanskrit Mahabharatam. (The chapters or divisions in RAMAYANA called as 'Kandams' and chapters or divisions of MAHABHARATAM called as 'Parvams')

Education Institutions in Addanki

There are many Govt and Private education institutions in Addanki, from Nursery to Post Graduation.
Addanki is center for more than 50 villages around the Town. So every one like to study in Addanki.