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 He gave as charity eight agraharams for the temples and as many as thirty-eight for Brahmins.

Miscellaneous, — The poet named Sataghantam Rangaiya dedicated his Hemadri Dandakam to this Rajah. He had as his Dewan, Booduri Subrahmanyam who considerably improved the income of the Estate. After a long rule of forty-four years and in his fifty- eighth year, he passed to heaven in 1848 A.D. Readers are here warned that the allegations and abuses heaped on members of this family in a false history of the Velugoti family called Velugoti Vari Vamsavali are utterly groundless. The book is perhaps due to the attempt at Dewan's murder by Chengati Varu, failing which they committed suicide.