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 Yachendra Bahadur Varu, who was duly annointed and installed the next year. The installation was attended by the several sons given over in adoption, the relations Vellankivaru, the Rajah of Jatprole and G. Narayana-gajapathi Rao, a Zemindar of Vizagapatam district. After this year he visited Benares, Bombay and Madras several times. And during one of his visits in 1880 he exchanged interviews with the Maharajah of Kasi. Items of notable and public importance of his time are —

Literary. — The Rajah was not only a great patron of letters but was himself too a man of letters. He patronised Tharkabhushanam Venkatachariar in his composition of Sringari- kalpavalli in 1851, and gave him a reward of an agraharam by name Vedurugunta in Venkatagiri taluk.

Gopinadham Venkatakavi was a great Telugu poet of his court. He translated