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VIZAGAPATAM down; and Sanyási Bhúpati and his uncle were tried by the Agent, convicted, and sentenced to transportation for life. Subsequently, however, Government directed that they should merely be kept as State detenus under surveillance, and that their share in the maintenance villages should be continued to them. At his death in 1886 Sanyási Bhúpati was drawing no less than Rs. 913 per annum.1 In 1864-65 police-stations were posted in the hill muttas and for a time the country was quiet. The unrest caused by the Rampa rebellion in the neighbouring Gódávari Agency in 1879-80 spread, however, to this tract and Captain Blaxland, who had come down from Jeypore with 50 police and some of the Rája's paiks, was attacked by a party of insurgents on 3rd June 1879 in a densely-wooded valley and driven back. The next year the sirdar (muttadar) of Gúdem Pátavídi, Tagi Vírayya Dora, joined another party of rebels. The leaders of this bound themselves by an oath, solemnly taken at the sacrifice of five human victims, to attack the police-station at Kondakambéru. The enterprise, however, was never undertaken: chased by sepoys and constabulary in every direction, the band was broken up into insignificant parties; and on the 7th October Vírayya Dora was shot. His last message to his pursuers was that he would never surrender unless his Rája, Chinna Bhúpati, bade him do so.2 It was in consequence of this rebellion that the Dutsarti and Guditéru muttas of Golgonda were transferred in 1881 to Gódávari, from which they were more accessible. The other Golgonda muttadars were given sanads stating that they held their muttas (which were declared inalienable by sale, gift or otherwise) on service tenure, subject to the payment of an annual kattubadi and to the conditions that the grantee was to capture and hand over to the authorities offenders who were in the mutta, or came into it, and was to give immediate information of fituris or other offences. As long as these conditions were fulfilled the grantee, and such of his heirs as Government might appoint,was to enjoy the mutta under the protection of Government. The penalty for non-fulfilment was the forfeiture of the mutta, Government reserving the right to do as seemed proper with the muttadar. These terms, which were re-affirmed and added to in 250