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PVG Raju was barely seventy-one years old, but his health was waning. Rumours were also going around Vizianagaram in 1995 that he might die. This was because a very strange incident took place in the Pydithali Ammavari festival in October that year.The Pydithali Ammavari temple was built about two and half centuries ago. Legend has it that goddess Pydimamba was the sister of the Maharaja of Vizianagaram, Vijayarama Gajapathi I. On hearing the news of her brother's assassination after the Bobilli war, she sacrificed her life. On the same night a divine voice told Pathiwada Appala Naidu, a soldier, to search for an idol of Pydimamba on the west side of Pedda Cheruvu Pydithali Ammavari festival91