Veyi Padagalu (pronunciation: veɪjɪ pədəgɑlʊ, English: "A Thousand Hoods") is an epic Telugu novel written by Viswanatha Satyanarayana.
[2] The village's fortunes have a close relationship to the change in traditional social structures like the caste system, the temple, the family, and the farm.
He establishes temples for Subrahmanyeswara and Venugopala Swamy, representations of Shiva and Vishnu respectively, and constructs a fort, which offers safety and acts as a seat of traditional learning.
The hoods of the thousand-hooded serpent that embodies the village's patron god Subrahmanyeswara disappear with this decline, with scarcely two remaining with the passage of time.
[4] The five translators are Aruna Vyas, Atreya Sarma Uppaluri, Vaidehi Sasidhar, S. Narayana Swamy, and C. Subba Rao, who edited the volume.