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 pond and making a deposit of 14,000 rupees to meet the expenses thereon. Besides, he got a treatise pubHshed as a Narhunar which treats of the Hunar system of Native gymnastics. Several other books were also printed and published under his kind care besides the publication of Ramayanam and Krishna Janma Kandam dedicated to him.

Religion. — The religious charities and activities of his time are manifold. In 1855 he went with family to Tirupati and on his way back he was received by the Zemindar of Kalahasti Damarakonda Venkatappa Naidu at Yerpedu and was highly honoured. In 1856 he made a pilgrimage to Rameswaram. In his forward journey he halted at Conjeeveram and other places of import. At Dhanushkodi a gift was made to Gannavaram Anantha Krishna Sastri of the village of Kasavareddipallam in Polur taluk. A choultry was built at Rameswaram for feeding the Brahmin pilgrims and on the occasion of the same pilgrimage