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Kancherla Gopanna, popularly known as Bhadradri Ramadasu or Bhadrachala Ramadasu, was a 17th century devotee of Rama and a composer of Carnatic music. He is one among the famous vaggeyakaras same person being the writer and composer of a song in the Telugu language, the others being Tyagaraja, Annamayya, Kshetryya. He lived in the village of Nelakondapalli near Khammam, Telangana during the 17th century and is renowned for constructing a famous temple for Rama at Bhadrachalam.

Even the doyen of South Indian classical music Saint Thyagaraja learned and later improved the style now considered standard krithi form of music composition. He discharged his official duties earnestly and collected revenues due to the Sultan — while continuing his unswerving service to Lord Rama by chanting his name and feeding the poor.

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One day, he visited Bhadrachalam for a Jatara fair and was disturbed by the dilapidated state of the temple there. Bhadrachalam was significant to devotees of Rama for many reasons. Lord Rama is said to have stayed near the Parnasala there with Sita and Lakshmana during his exile and also to have visited Sabari near Badrachalam.

Pothana, the renowned Telugu poet is believed to have been given direction by Rama to translate the Bhagavata Purana into Telugu here. In spite of its significance, the temple was utterly neglected. So, Ramadasu started to raise funds for the renovation and reconstruction of the temple. After he emptied his coffers and could raise no more money, the villagers appealed him to spend his revenue collections for the reconstruction and promised to repay the amount after harvesting crops.

As such, Ramadas finished the reconstruction of the temple with six hundred thousand rupees collected from land revenues — without the permission of the Abul Hasan Qutb Shah. As the temple was nearing completion, he was perplexed one night about fixing the Sudarshana Chakra at the crest of the main temple. On the same night, it is believed that he saw Rama in his dream and asked him to have a holy dip in the Godavari River.