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 their legs; and sent them off with a guard, whom lie desired to secure them [in the prison] on the hill at Bellary : he kept the [widowed] wives, and female children here [in Anantapuram] in the palace : but all the eons and other males he knocked on the head.

He seized all the treasury, the weapons, provisions for war, and other wealth, and dispatched it to Bellary. He appointed the captain Ramachandra, and Surapa of Curugodu, and Mallappa of the Zaggula family and Zunza Bhai the Turk,( m ) and others, as pleni potentiaries here [in Anantapuram]. He even took the [idol of] saint Siddha Rameswara [out of the chapel there] and marched with his troops arid arrived at Bellary.

11. Four months after these occurrences, this [luckless] Sidda Ramapa Nayu, who was imprisoned on the hill at Bellary, and [his fellow bondsman] Cari huli Basavapa, being both linked together with one fetter on one foot [of each], Almighty Goers (Sri Devu) Mercy was shewn to Basavapa : and he formed a scheme : one day, at night they very humbly besought the jailors who were on the perpetual guard, saying, This day after it dawns, they will take our lives : bestow ye our lives (prana danam) on us, and deliver (nirvahacam) our family. We will light a lamp* and remember you night and day with gratitude.

Then by the grace of God the jailors' hearts being moved, and pity arising, they severed the shackle from off [his] leg : and Basavappa [as a faithful liegeman] laid [his liege lord] Siddappa [whose leg was shackled] on his shoulders, and proceeded ; the guards being his guides ; they passed by the secret [literally thief-path] way, and came out into the plain of the Nagala-Tank. Then the guards pointing, said to his honour Basavappa,f " This is the Hirehalu road : it is about to dawn : depart with speed.'* So the [guards] returned into the town, taking their own little ones, and quitted the village, arid departed by another way.