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12 honour something or other: if I go (home) into the fort I shall not have the opportunity of joining my sister."

That night while Prasannapa N. was sleeping she took all the wealth that were there, and tying the things on her middle and on her thighs to conceal them, she put her petticoat over all. Then she drew the dagger that lay on the bed, and cut the throat of this Prasannapa Nayudu: and while she was going along wishing to make her escape, being unable to see, she was going here and there [in the dark.]

4. At that moment the guards who were around the tent of the baron, and the (Dalavai) commandant Hālī Nayudu and the rest, lighted a torch and went into the tent. They saw that his honour was at his last gasp: and that Miss Vasanta had come out of the tent to make her escape. They called her in, and on asking who had done this deed, Prasannapa Nayudu, who was at his last gasp, made a sign with his hand, pointing at Vasantamma. They called for the waiting women, had her searched, and these women having detected the bags of things, took them from her, brought and laid them before the commandant and the others.

5. Afterwards, they seized Miss Vasanta and pinioned her and put her in confinement. They wrote a letter telling the tidings to Prasannapa Nayu's younger brother Pavādapa N. who was at Buccapatnam. On reading the letter he instantly set out from thence and came to the bank of the lake: then he placed Vasantamma in the fort, and built a wall around her, within which she ended her days.

Thus Prasannapa Nayu died the same day in the year Vicari SS. 1641 (A. D. 1719.)

6. Afterwards, from the year Sarvari, SS. 1642 (A. D. 1720) this Pavādapa Nayu ruled the land. There were three captains (Foujdars) named Sardār Khan, and Alli Khan, and Mohammad Khan. These three marching with a small force, by this route to Pedda Sirigiri from the Mayana Nabob of Kadapa, halted within half a coss of Anantapuram, on the brink of the river at Zūṭūr.