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 account of the frequent Muhammadan raids the Estate Treasury was also removed to the top of the rock.

Literary. — The lyrical poems known as the "Five Gems" sung by the poet Kasturi Rangappa, in praise of the Rajah is the extant evidence of his literary taste.

As the Rajah had no sons, he took a boy of his next cousin Alavalapati Varu, in adoption to himself and named him after his father Kumara Yachama Naidu. He then attained Nirvana in 1776 A.D. His beloved wives Papamma and Akkamma accompanied him on the funeral pyre and thus ended the twenty-second year of his public career at an age of 55.