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 main line descended from the second. This Dharma Naidu is called Siva Bhupathi in Singabhupaliyam. The line of Pithapuram Rajahs branches from here. Nothing more is known about him.

Next to his elder brother and his descendants. Pedda Singama Naidu alias Sarwagna Singa Bhupathi, a titular name on account of his great learning, is known for his book on rhetoric, "Singabhupaliyam." He wrote also a commentary on "Sangeetharatnakaram" a treatise on music, and some other Sanskrit books which brought him the prefix Sarwagna, meaning all-knowing or omniscient. Singabhupaliyam is unique in its kind and portions from it were quoted by that great Sanskrit commentator Mallinatha in his Raghuvamsam commentary, and are also noted as authority in such books as "Rasarnava Sudhakaram, Alankara Siromani and Pratapa Rudriyam and Balaramayanam Vyakyanams." His period (re Nagambika's inscription appended