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 During his time were given the largest number of agraharams, villages as charity as many as seventy-four besides those already mentioned. The following is a brief list : twenty-eight agraharams from Venkatagiri taluk, six from Polur, thirteen from Darsi, nine from Kocherlakota, two from Sagutur, four from Pellur, five from Podili, and seven from Marella.

Nor were the interests of the other religion- ists in his Estate lost sight of in any way. For the Muhammadans was constructed at a great cost and close by his own Palace, a huge mosque which is still as new in appearance as ever before.

Almost equal in importance are the general improvements of his time of a more or less public nature. First the rebuilding of the town after Haider's mischief. The town- planning and reconstruction are well recorded in the Telugu history in verse-form. On his return from Madras, the Rajah found that all