Page:A Family History of Venkatagiri Rajas.djvu/108

 Last but not the least, the long list of thirty-three agraharams which were granted on different occasions, the following being a summary : — twelve agraharams from Venkatagiri taluk, nine from Sagutur, four from Polur, three from Pellur, four from Darsi and one belonging to Podili.

End. — While organising the administration of his Kotcherlakota taluk, the Rajah suddenly fell ill, and when he was arranging to return to Venkatagiri, he unexpectedly breathed the last in 1748 A.D.

The eldest son at Venkatagiri having heard through messengers news of his father's ill-ness was then hastily proceeding to the north, when he learnt the sorrowful tidings on his way. He therefore hastened all the quicker and joined his brother in concluding the funeral rites. Thus ended the life of Rajah Sarwagna Kumara Yachama Naidu Bahadur in his fifty-ninth year and after fifty-four years of long and fruitful rule.