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 ctWi Wuranda Kanner I No cool water ever spring ' Varurngada Palli | Nor sleep fall under the Ta- marind during night Nor claims be ever adjusted At Terukanaguddi Tirada Vallaku Terukanaguddi Next morning Terumenje Jlwar carried off all the Trea* pure, to the Southern Country and established several Devalatns together with the said Kamal Ala yen and Vri- hadltwar Kovit and established there all kind of worship aud festivals, &c. A particular account of these, and of the Jainas and Bowdhas is particularly detailed in the Kyfiyat. Four months ago as an Inhabitant of the Devalam of Kanyarohana Swami of Nagapatnam named Sabhapati w.is ploughing at a quarter of a mite East ot Puduval Gopuram, the plough share struck against a Hvuddha Image which was highly sfilt; the man from its flitter- ing appearance thought the Itnacre was of gold, and will- ing to avail himself of his good fortune he went d irectlj and acquainted the Stanikulu and took them to the place; the Image was taken up and carried into the Devalam on a certain night, and Gudiug on examination that it was only gilt, they produced to rub off the gilding. 8 or 10 Pagodas weight of the gold, intending to rub off the rest and then to melt the Image into brass pots secretly to save their character and prevent its coming to the know- ledge of the Circar people. Hearing of this I immedi- ately went to the Devalam, visited the Stanikulu and re- quested them to shew me the linage, but they denied any knowledge of such Image at first; I then went to one Timmapiah the head inhabitant there and acquainted hint of the circumstance, together with the accounts I had received of the place of the Image, and promised him a reward for assisting me to get access to the Articles but after much pains to discover the Image he told me he could not discover it. Resolved however to trace the facts I sat down before the gate and after much discourse with the Stamkut he produced the Image which they agreed to dispose of for sixteen or twenty Star Pagodas, upon which I advanced