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Rh  and Mettu-Gramamulu. There is, however, no such pergunnah as Mettu-Gramamulu. Mettu-Gramamulu means dry villages; and there are dry villages in every pergunnah. It is evident that the word Mettu-Gramamulu has been used in error for the word Potu-Gramamulu, as the Potu-Gramamulu above referred to were at that time and up to the death of the late Rajah (1868) managed as one pergunnah. The error is probably due to the writer of the Presidency Manual not knowing, or misunderstanding, the meaning of the word Potu, fight.

Rajah Lingappa Ranga-Rao having no male issue adopted Vengal Rao, the third son of Madhava Rao, a member of the Venkatagiri family.

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Rajah Vengal Ranga-Rao was a child when his adoptive father died. So the estate was 