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68 WARS OF THE RAIATS. (Chap. VIt- e


Again in a few days [Basavapa] marched with his troops to [the village of} Pamudi, plundered Konampeta and returned.

9, After two months had elapsed, Basavappa obtained secret iufor- mation that there was a rich village named Roddam on the high way at sixteen coss from Anantapuram: he therefore instantly marched there with his troops; when he reached Appaji palleh and Ganram palleh which are about midway, it began to dawn. Go he plundered these two villages: and stript some merchants who had halted on the road with a convoy of treacle. Ho seized the villayers (capulu) and sent a guard with them to Buccapatuam. Meanwhile he set his troops around Pulta parti, and appointed Subbarayu and Gubbala Hanumappa as commandants. He left them there and rapidly re- turned to Anantapuram.

After a fortnight there waa an unseasonable fall of rain and the river was flooded. The troops raised the siege and returned to Buccapatnam. They wrote and sent all the news to Anantaporam, But Basayappa on reading it replied ‘what business (") is fto be done] there? arise and come here.” According to this order all these troops returned to Anantapuram.

10, After four months, in the year Khara,* the 4th of the dark fortnight in the month Bhadrapada [that is, 7th Oct. 1771,] a prodigious fall of rain raised the river Chitravati:- the Temple- stone} (Gudibanda) tank burst as well ax some others, and the flood passed all bounds: the Buceapatnam lauk was filled, and the two sluices being insufficient, the waves pourgd over the embank- ment; and as Musalaiia (the tide waiter] had forgotten to heap carth over the broken sluice, the waters rushed through the chasm, aud near Blackhills (Nalla gutta) about a hundred fathoms of ground was eut through, and the bank burst. On reading the letter written regarding this by the villagerr, Basavappa, who had built a second

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+ The Pennar river falls into ihe sea near Nelloor. Outof it, between Jammai-madugu and ‘adparti, the Chitravati rons southwards.

3 Ina few such names which are ofno note, I lranslale the expressions. Ploods like this often happen and canse prodigious Joss,

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