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 eclipse. While returning, he met the Rajah of Jatprole who accompanied him to Kalahasti. In 1871, he went to Kasi for the second time on the 7th August, and on 11th October of the same year he made the third pilgrimage to Benares and he visited Harihara, Bombay and Poona. He bought two elephants in the Fair held at Harihara which was attended by His Excellency the Viceroy and the Dewan of Nepal. The Rajah had given large sums of money to Sri Venkateswara of Tirupati on previous occasions and this year he gave the village named Maddali in Gudur taluk worth 30,000 rupees. With the income of this village it was intended to feed thirty people every day. In 1872, he went to Benares for the fourth time. It was then that he met in Calcutta, and had exchange of visits with H. E. Lord Napier, the Viceroy, and his successor. This had already been mentioned under events of public importance. This time he built a choultry in Benares to feed twenty