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 TRANSLATION OF THE TELUGU HISTORIES AND TALES. THE WARS OF THE RAJAS. THE ANNALS OF HANDEH ANANTAPURAM. CHAPTER FIRST.

1. While Bucca Rayalu ruled Vidyānagar [Vijayanagar] on the banks of the Pampa, his chief servant Chikkappa Wadeyar in the SS. year 1286 answering to "Krodhi" [A.D. 1364] built a lake: it was near Devaraconda, in the province of Nandela: south of Vidyanagar. He saw the river Pandu, which rises in the Cambu-giri-swami hills: at Devaraconda he stopped it with an embankment and thus formed a lake : at the two (marava) outlets of which he built two villages. The one at the eastern (marava) mouth he named Bucca Raya's Sea [also called Bucca Samudram; about 50 miles South East of Bellary]; thus naming it after his lord. And the village at the western mouth he named, after his lady, Ananta-Sagaram [also called Handeh Ananta Puram]. He also observed the river Chitravati which rises in the hill sacred to Vencateswara, lord of Varagiri, in the Elamanchi country, sixteen miles South of Bucca Raya Samudram: here also he built a lake. And at each end of the bank he built a village. The one at the east end he called: Bucca Patnām; and the western village he named Ananta Sagaram [also called Kotta Cheruvu, or "New-Tank"]. At this place Chiccappa Wadayar departed this life. C.P. Brown's Histories and Tales.