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{{Infobox military person<br />
| name = Pemmasani Timmanayudu I<br />
| death_place = [[Yadiki]]<br />
| allegiance = [[Vijayanagara Empire]]<br />
| relations = [[Pemmasani Ramalinga Nayudu]]<br />
[[Pemmasani Nayaks]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Pemmasani Timmanayudu I,''' also known as '''Thimma Nayudu,''' was the progenitor of the [[Pemmasani Nayaks]], as per the Kaifiyat of Tadipatri.{{sfn|Sriramamurty|1964|pages=90|p=}} The Pemmasani migrated from Telugu regions to serve the [[Vijayanagara Empire]] militarily.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India|last=Ramaswamy|first=Vijaya|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=5 July 2017|isbn=9781351558259|location=United Kingdom|pages=Page 139: "Kamma clans like the Pemmasani migrated in their capacity as mercenary peasant–warriors."}}</ref> <br />
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Pemmasani Timmanayudu first entered into the service of the Vijayanagara Empire as the keeper of the royal pigeons.{{sfn|Sriramamurty|1964|pages=90|p=}} Praudha Devaraya ([[Deva Raya|Devaraya II]]) sent Timmanayudu I to [[Yadiki]], where Timmanayudu constructed a fort with four bastions.{{sfn|Sriramamurty|1964|pages=90|p=}} Moreover, Timmanayudu built one temple for [[Virabhadra|Veerabhadra]] and one temple for [[Ganesha|Ganapati]] because their idols were found during the construction of the Yadiki Fort.{{sfn|Sriramamurty|1964|pages=90|p=}}<br />
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Pemmasani Timmanayudu I administered Yadiki and its adjoining territory for sometime. He died there and was succeeded by his son, [[Pemmasani Ramalinga Nayudu I|Ramalinganayudu]] I.{{sfn|Sriramamurty|1964|pages=90|p=}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Deva Raya II|Devaraya II]]<br />
* [[Pemmasani Nayaks]]<br />
* [[Pemmasani Ramalinga Nayudu]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
* {{Citation|last=Sriramamurty|first=Y.|title=Journal of the Andhra Historical Society, Volume 30, Parts 1-4|date=1964|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgDjAAAAMAAJ|pages=89–104|chapter=History of the Pemmasani Family|publisher=Andhra Historical Research Society}}<br />
** {{citation |chapter=The Pemmasani Family |title=Studies in the History of the Telugu country during the Vijayanagara period 1336 to 1650 A D |last=Sriramamurty |first=Y. |publisher=Karnatak University/Shodhganga |date=1973 |hdl=10603/107988 |chapter-url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/107988/10/10_chapter%206.pdf }}<br />
* {{citation|last=Wagoner|first=Phillip B.|title=Tidings of the king: a translation and ethnohistorical analysis of the Rāyavācakamu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_A1uAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-1495-3}}<br />
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