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The Venkataghiri Rajah. — The Calastry Rajah.-- The Chandi Zemindar.— The Matiyal. pad Zemindar. — The Sayidapur Zemindar. — The Jupalli Zemindars of Udayagiri.— The Udayagiri Jaghiredar. — The Vazella Zemindars of Gudur.- The Zemindars of Ongole. The Turrawar Poligar.- The Tadeboyina Poligar.-- The Chetitiwar Poligar. — The Udathawar Poligar. – The Gangulawar Poligar. — The Buchereddipalem family.

The family records of this house, which are said to have been systematically compiled from the earliest times down to the present generation by the successive heads of the family, profess to trace in an unbroken line the genealogical history of the family for a period of 27 generations.

One Chevi Reddi, the founder of the house, who appears to have been a cultivator in a village called Anamanagallu, owed his success in establishing the fortunes of his family to the lucky discovery of a treasure of nine lakhs of rupees which was disclosed in his field by the ploughshare. A sasanam, which was unearthed with the treasure, prescribed the performance of a human sacrifice by the person who should be so fortunate as to discover, and so bold as to claim, the prize. But this difficulty was removed by the devotion of Chevi Reddi's servant Recherla, who, with the most unpractical zeal, not only renounced all share in the treasure which he had brought to light, but offered his life as the price of his master's fortunes. The only conditions Recherla imposed were that his own name should for ever take the place of Chevi Reddi's hereditary house-name; that Chevi Reddi's descendants should each and all bear the patronymic “Recherla," and that to perpetuate the memory of their humble benefactor, no marriage should be celebrated in the master's family without the previous marriage of some member of the servant's caste. Certain it is that these conditions are all complied with at the present day, and it is now idle to inquire their origin. On the spot where the treasure was found a village was built bearing the name of the immolated “Recherla."