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 The second endowment belongs to the year 1679 A.D. That year the village of Mannur belonging to Venkatagiri taluk, which came under the control of these Rajahs during the days of Venkatadri Naidu, the seventeenth member of this line, was named Kumara Yachasamudram in revered memory of his father, was declared an agraharam and given as free gift in forty-six equal shares to several Brahmins.

Thirdly it was in 1682 A.D. that the village of Siddavaram, two miles to the west of Venkatagiri, was named Varadamambapuram, in revered memory of his mother and given over as agraharam.

Once during his stay in the capital in the south, he constructed a mandapam, a stone-built hall opposite to the temple of Vijayaraghava Swami in Thirupagudi, near Mosaravaka, as a visiting hall of the said Deity during the time of His festival. On Sree Rama Navami and other festive occasions the