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 The followers, being also unarmed, were of no avail in helping the Rajah.

When news of this treachery reached the Rajah's palace, his son by the first wife Sarwagna Kumara Yachendra and son by the third wife Kumara Nayana and Rama Rao, a Brahmin boy, kindly brought up in the palace, were all entrusted to the care of a servant-woman Polu to be safely handed over to their relations Jupalli Varu and Brahmin house-holders, known as Pasupati Avaru and Divi Varu, living in distant parts and the maid-servant was secretly despatched out of the palace with the three children and with a small sum of money to cover the expenses of the journey. The ladies in the Harem, namely, the three wives of the Rajah, his two daughters by first wife, and one other by the third committed suicide preferring death to falling into the hands of the heinous Nawab and being dishonoured. This dreadful incident occurred in 1693 A.D.