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 return visit to the Court of Travancore in 1910, at the request of the Yuvaraja of Travancore, who attended the annual festival at Venkatagiri, he was considerably struck with the glory of the Idol at Ananthasayanam. It is during the same journey that he reached the southernmost point of the Peninsula and paid his worships to Devi Kanyakumari.

Literary and Miscellaneous. — His love of learning and extensive patronage of literature are best evidenced by the Varshasanams, annual maintenances granted to Pandits, Poets, Artists and Musicians, as also by the Rs. 10,000 given to the Andhra Sahitya Parishad (Telugu Academy) and by the large sum of money spent in the cause of Telugu Literature at the time of the heated controversy between Classical and Colloquial Systems of Telugu. He was particularly fond of Telugu Poetry, having been himself a poet of no mean order, and more than a score of poetical works such as Radhakrishnasamvadam