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    • Golconda Fort – Ramdas Jail - Tripoto
      • Bhakt Ramdas was a royal tax collector who stole MONEY from the royal treasury to build a Rama temple. However he was caught and imprisoned inside a dungeon within the Golconda fort. This place is now known as Ramdas prison and in Salman’s Tere Naamthis served as the mental asylum.
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  2. He spent his later years in Bhadrachalam and 12 years in solitary confinement at the Golconda prison during the Qutb Shahi rule. Different mythical stories about his life circulate in the Telugu tradition.

  3. Apr 1, 2020 · Ramadasu remained in Golconda jail during 1662-1674 CE. During his regime, Abdullah Qutub Shah encouraged poets from all languages. Carnatic musician Kshetrayya (1600–1680 CE) visited his court.

  4. Aug 3, 2022 · He was dismissed from his job and he was put into jail towards utilizing the government funds for temple reconstruction. After twelve years of imprisonment, Lord Rama and Lakshmana, gave to the Sultan six lakh gold coins, as compensation for the money spent by Ramadas.

  5. All these stories share a common theme – he collecting Jizya religious tax from Hindus in Bhadrachalam area, he reconstructing or building anew the famed large Rama temple of Bhadrachalam, partly with donations and partly with tax he had collected for the Golconda Sultanate, his arrest on charges of fraud and misuse of the taxes, he spending ...

  6. Ramadas on return from his long stay in the prison cell found that the ‘tamburawas intact with the ‘swara’ (tune), as on the day he had left it! Ramadas lived to a ripe age before attaining the Lotus Feet of His Beloved Rama.

  7. Tana Shah, furious at this incident, imprisoned Ramadasu in the Golkonda fort prison, where he was tortured daily. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.-

  8. Ramadasu is known for constructing the current Rama temple in Bhadrachalam and as consequence suffered the agonies of prison for 12 years.