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Rh lessons on morality and other subjects from these two teachers. He attended the Durbar held in 1877 at Vizagapatam in honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria assuming the title of EMPRESS OF INDIA, and at this Durbar he and the late Maharajah, then the Kumar Raja, of Vizianagaram, were the only natives that were seated on the dais with the European officials. Happily, at this Durbar, the subsequent heads of the two rival houses of Vizianagaram and Bobbili introduced themselves to each other for the first time.

In 1878 he went to Venkatagiri to attend the installation of his eldest brother, the present Rajah. It is a very happy event to note here that the three brothers, the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 4th, given in adoption to the families of Pittapur, Bobbili, and Jetprole respectively, came together there for the first time after their adoption. Here he shot his first tiger. In 1880, his first wife, whom he married in 1878, gave birth to a son, the Kumara Rajah,