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Report on the Dependency of Bustar. 



[No. 1, 



serve, however, to exhibit the value of the inland fisheries as a source 

 of Government Revenue. 



The accompanying rough sketch will give but a faint idea of the 

 beauty of the scenery of the lake or of the picturesque sites of the 

 villages on its banks ; it must be seen to be fully appreciated. 



Extract from a Report on the Dependency of Bustar. — By Captain 

 C. GrLASTUBDj, Deputy Commissioner of the Upper Godavery 

 Districts. 



In comparison with the extent of the Dependency, there are not as 

 many objects of interest as might be expected. None of the previous 

 Rajas of Bustar have erected temples or any permanent buildings, 

 and were the present dynasty to pass away, they would not leave 

 behind them a single edifice of any description to commemorate their 

 rule. It was different with the ruling power whom they appear to 

 have displaced, viz. that of the Nagbunse Rajas of Barsoor and 

 Bhyrumgurh. Although it is nearly five hundred years since their power 

 was broken, and their name has been all but forgotten, yet no one can 

 see the ruined temples at Barsoor without instituting a comparison 

 between the past and present rule. It is not that the former were 

 greater than many other petty Rajas, but that the present are so 

 inferior. The ruins of the ancient Barsoor, said to have been the 

 capital of the previous power, are to be traced close to the north of 

 the present village of that name, through a dense jungle of bamboo 

 which has overgrown the site. A high brick wall, the ruins of which 

 are now difficult to follow, seems to have enclosed a space of about 

 one square mile ; whether the city was contained within this I am 

 unable to say ; but within it there are the ruins of four or five temples. 

 They are at some little distance from each other, and from the masses 

 of rock of which they have been constructed, and the richness and 

 beauty of their sculpture, impress one with a favorable idea of the 

 taste and wealth of those under whose rule they were built. Three are 

 in a tolerable state of preservation, one sacred to Mahadeo and another 

 to Peddama, the sister of Dunteshwarree, the original representation 

 of whom was removed to Duntewara by Dulput Deo, Raja of Bustar. 



