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 1755 A.D., and was installed the same year with Rajah Bahadur and other titles.

The following incident is recorded with regard to this installation. According to the social right established so early as during the days of the second descendant Prasaditya Naidu, under orders of the Emperor Ganapathi Rai, making the Padmanayaka Velamas the first and foremost in rank, the chiefs belonging to the other seventy-six Velama sects, Damara Venkatapathi Naidu of Kalahasti included, paid the customary respects to the Rajah on this occasion by keeping themselves standing. Damara Venkatapathi Naidu himself being the brother-in-law of the Rajah was allowed a seat in the south-east of the hall. The Telugu verses composed for the occasion and since preserved bear testimony to this fact.

Before taking up the martial career of the Rajah, a brief description of his titles and honours. Jupalli Muvvala Naidu, a vakil and relation of the Rajah, was sent to the Court of