94 litstGvicat Narrative of the Rajahs of Goomsoor, [Jan. 



elder one residing in Hari-hara puram, ruled over a country containing 

 to the extent of one hundred and sixty co.ss*. The youngest ruled at 

 Cejidujaci, over a country conlaining one hundred and twenty coss. 

 After the lapse of some generations, the ruler (name not mentioned) 

 had to maintain a dispute with his uncle (the younger brother of his 

 father) concerning the portion which the latter claimed. As the king 

 would not surrender that portion, that uncle, named Dohitari B^hovjut 

 Avith seven householders, and his two sons, named Rag* humad/ha 

 Bho7ijii, h.\\diBo7iamali B'hovju, reth'ed mio iht BautVhu country. In 

 that Baud'hu-desam, a Brahman ruled, named Dinahaud^hu of the Cas- 

 trapa tribe of the race of A^audda. The aforesaid Daitari, united him- 

 self with that Brahman, and, explaining all his affairs to him, as that 

 king was a sea of bounty, he bestowed on him a great many favours, and 

 kept him near his own royal person. After some time that Doitari 

 died, and as the king had no children of his own, he adopted those two 

 sons, Rag^hunad'ha, and Bona^nali, having them invested with the sa- 

 cred thread by his own tribe. While bringing them up, by Divine ap- 

 pointment, a son was born to himself to which the name of Vinayacutu 

 was given. As soon as this child attained the age of five years, the 

 Brah?nankmg reared up the three children without making any distinc- 

 tion between them. One day while these three children were playing 

 together, they mounted together on an elephant; when the two adopted 

 children, agreeing together, cast down Vinayacutu the Brahman-kmg's 

 own son, and caused his death under the feet of the elephant. They 

 then came with tears, and themselves announced the fact to the king, 

 stating it to have accidently occurred at Hacund'da in the BoCha- 

 de&am, but the persons who were with them, charged them with the 

 wilful commission of the crime. As the king was a very wise and pru- 

 dent man, he did not take any proceedings against them, but, consi- 

 dering that he had adopted them, and that were he to have them put to 

 death, his race would become extinct, he called them both and said to 

 them, " In the first instance, I adopted you as children ; subsequently 

 " a child that was born to me is by divine appointment now dead ; if 

 this death occurred by your contrivance, then discord well arise in 

 " your race between father and child, between elder and younger bro- 

 " ther ; while, by every one ruling the kingdom, flatulent diseases 

 " (swelled legs, wens on the neck, &c. &c.) and leprosy will have to be 

 " borne : they will do what ought not to be done, and afterwards en- 



«■ Tlie measure of the coss, in the Cuddapah district, is about two and a quarter 

 Esglioh miles. 



