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 and Telugu. Not only did he patronise a Pandit and Poet the famous Appayya Dikshitar in his rendering the Sanskrit Vishnu Puranam into Telugu verse but proclaimed his own literary talents by composing in Sanskrit an Ashtakam and a Churnika both in praise of Goddess Gnanaprasunamba of Sreekalahasti.

Religious. — Next come his religious activities. In Kayyur of Venkatagiri taluk, he built a village Akkampet, styled so in memory of his beloved mother with a big tank and a temple near by, and in this temple are set up as at Kurchedu, the images of his mothers and sisters and worshipped to this date.

He next built a nice temple in the premises of his palace at Venkatagiri, in which Kali is daily worshipped. It is said that the Rajah's poetic talents were in no small measure due to his pious worship of Kali and Her Divine Blessings.