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 if you will permit us we will return home. I pray that you also will favour us by coming* with all your army, and see with your eyes all [your] kinsfolk there, young and old, and remain there four days, and then return. As he earnestly invited them, [the laird of Bellari replied saying] what matter though we come : [that is, we make no objection:] please to go (padandi) home. I will put the fort in safe hands^, and after four days I will come to you.

So saying he presented vests and vessels and other gifts to the laird of Anantapur with his managers, so as to gratify them : then he dismissed them. So they returned to their home at Anantapuram.

4. Thus the laird of Bellary remained there : and therefore within three or four days the laird of Anantapuram wrote him letters of invitation, praying him to come speedily. When he of Bellary read these letters he caused replies to be written promising that he would come. These he sent beforehand and then set out with his troops ; he halted on the west side of the village Racana palleh, on the bank of the Tadacaleru [that is, the river " Wisp"] and sent word to Anantapuram. On hearing the news, the laird of Anantapuram set out with his sons, accompanied by his troops of all arms, and proceeded towards the rock of Racina palleh : where the laird of Bellari came to meet him from the Tadacaleru. They had an interview : they embraced each other and he of Bellary put a giltf necklace on the neck of his friend : then they with their troops proceeded to Anantapuram, and were about to enter the fort : but he of Bellari(*) observed " I have brought both horse and foot, a large force, with me: there will be no room for them in the fort. By your leave we will halt at the Great Mosque-Bank." [See Chap. 2. 15.] But his host replied " why do you condescend to say so ?" Thereupon he removed all his guards and troops out of the fort, and sent them into the suburbs ; and instead, he brought the Bellary troops into the fort and placed them on guard, and lodged his lordship in the palace. That night he supplied supper and baths and all