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 visited Comara Nayu. Then [Basavappa] said " I shall come with some troops in ten days, and I wish you to remain on your guard [there] with your troops at Raptad." Thus saying he sent him to Raptad. Then [Basavappa] set out and went to Great Vemula where he waited on Peda Comara Nayu who received him with much honour and listened to all his good and bad adventures, feeling (tapatraya) compassion for him. He said " As far as lies in my power I will help you without any slackness. Be not afflicted/' So saying he encouraged [Basavappa] and kept him there ten days: granting him clothes, and other articles [of honour,] and took care that the proper supplies were furnished to him. Then giving some troops under the command of Yerra Golla Ramapa* he gave leave [to his guest Basavappa] and thus set him forward on his journey.

6. Afterwards Basavapa, accompanied by these troops, went through Buccapatnam,* to Banda-mTdi-palleh.f and Kflderu, and Koracolla, and other places, and (upagramamulu) the petty hamlets. In them he placed (thana) guards, and then proceeded through Kodimeh and Ra^anapalleh, and ai rived at Zantulur : there he de- manded that the garrison (thana) should surrender. But as the (killadar) commandant of the place did not submit, he scaled the walls and elew the commandant, and placed another captain instead. Thence he marched through Reddipalleh, Reeulakoonta, and Sidda- rama puram, and Uppara palleh and arrived at Raptad.

At this place all the people in the town came out to meet him with great rejoicings, and carried Basavapa Nayu into the town-

7. Now it so happened that Bharmaji Dalava and Sultanji Dalava, commandants in the service of the Ghorpadeh [a certain Mahratta chieftain] along with Chinnaji, were, at the head of sixty horse, an elephant and (nagara)J drums, marching on their way to Murari Rao, who was at Trichinopoly, with a view to enter his service : they halted at the bank of the Raptad rivulet.

Then Mecala Chinnaii, accompanied by the Reddis (head farmers) and karnams (village clerks) waited on these personages ; they had


 * That is Ramapa the red (or fair complexioned) shepherd.

f That is, " the village on the rock."

{ The Nagara is> the drum that is granted as a mark of honour.