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Rh prayer was rejected;* and he obtained from the Government a Permanent Cowle, or Sunnad-Mulk-et-Istimirar, dated 21st October, 1803. He formed many agraharams, established chattrams at Rajam and Bobbili, and did many other charitable acts. He dug several tanks, of which Rangaraya Sagaram is the largest.

The following account of an interview between the Rajah and Sir Thomas Munro is taken from the Minutes of Consultation of His Excellency. [Vide Selections from Minutes and other official writings of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart., K.C.B., by Sir A. J. Arbuthnot, page 188, para. 9).

"The Bobbili Raja met me at Suparnam, a large weaving village in his own zemindari. He came on his elephant, attended by his brother-in-law and another person employed in his service chiefly as a legal adviser, on account of his supposed knowledge of the