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 12. After it dawned, as [the fugitives] Basavnppa and his honour Siddaramappa, having heen in prison without (anna-saralam) proper food, they were unable to walk [further.] So, when they entered the field which was before the hamlet Haradalu, under the village Hirehal, being faint and very hungry, Siddappa said to Basavappa ; If our enemies come and catch us, let them : [there's an end of all :] I am hungry. So saying, he eat down under a tree : which was within [two parugus, i. e. coss] four miles of Hirehal. Here-upon Basavapa Nayu thought in his heart " Behold ! Though we have once escaped, the hour is come for us to fall again into their hands."

But by the mercy of God, there came an honest man, of the Balija caste, out of this Hire-hal: he was a Reddi (burgher) : he cultivated a rye-field* and had reaped it : and stacked [the grain]. He now came for the purpose of getting the crop trodden out, and made into grain : he brought his cattle and men, and their breakfast in vessels, and water : as he was( a ) passing along he saw the two men sitting under a tree with fetters on their legs.f He asked who are you, and whence come you ? Then Basavappa related all their adventures to the burgher, and said, " If you will in this (evil) hour supply us with bread and water, and conceal us from the view of all persons, you will have the virtue of having granted us our lives." By the grace of God t he felt compassion for them, and comforted them saying u Be not afraid.' 1 He thus reassured them ; and seating Sidda Ramapa on his own bullock,J and taking Basavappa along with him, brought them into his field threshing-floor : "there he at once served up to them the breakfast that he there had, and hid them among the heaps of rye.

13. Afterwards, a marksman, who had charge of the guard on the hill at Bellari, came, and looking into the guard room, he saw that