**Vadde Raju** or **Vaddi** or **Vadiya Rajulu** or **Vaddera** or **Vadde** or **Odde**
( also transliterated as Odiya Rajulu) is an Indian caste originated during the Eastern Ganga dynasty that later became Gajapathi Kingdom. Until 16 century north andra was ruled by Vadiyarajulu who belongs to Odiya kingdom(now Orissa) Their ancestors are Sagar king, Bhaghiratha king, Raghu king, Kharavela king, Ganapathi Deva , purushotam dev, Narasihma Deva (build Sun Temple in konark), Anantavarman built Puri Jagannath Temple and rebuilt by Anand dev those are odiya rulers. In India first in the history odiya/vadde kings used Elephants in the wars hence they were used to be called Gajapathi Kingss. Pusapati kings(Vijayanagaram kings) defeated Vadiya kings in Nandapur war in 16th century hence those got Gajapathi award from vadiya kings from onwards. Indian Government caste systems, vadde kings are in the list Of OC in the early years of independent ( plz see category wise caste system in AP website) Sl.no 673, caste code 1467, caste name Vadde Rajulu, later years due to financial backward to be joined in the BC category. Due to Curse, some Vadde king families to become stone cutters after loosing kingdoms gradually and also vadde kings not only kings they are Civil engineers too. That is Vadiyarajulu history, In the Rayachoti (kadapa district) as on today Sri Veera badreswara swamy Festival will perform & distributing Prasadham to devotees after touching the Prasadham of Gods by vadde kings only bcoz vadde kings saved the temple from Islamic invaders.
