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The statement does not go higher up than to the time of a Nabob 

 of Caddapa in~S. S. 1679 ; and there is scarcely any thing of more 

 consequence than some plunderings, and forays. At length the place 

 came into possession of Jangama Nayadu ; of what race or power is not 

 stated. 



Section 4. Account of Aragada vemulu, a village in the district of 

 Duviir. 



Eeference to Crishna rayalu of the Vijayanagaram dynasty ; but only 

 as to village grants. The same in the time of Sadd Siva -rayalu. It 

 was ruined by bands of robbers. The Mahomedans came, and settled 

 the country. Various Khans mentioned. Nothing further particular 

 occurred down to the rule of the Honorable Company. 



Section 5. Account of Chinna-dandalur in the same district, anci- 

 ently the country was invaded by a Chola raja: who encamped near a 

 ruined village. Various petty traders supplied the camp with provisions, 

 and other needful matters ; whereby several people were attracted, and 

 by them a village was gradually built, called Dandatur or " army 

 town because of the army encamped there. Under the Rayer dy- 

 nasty, this village was assimilated with the TJdiya giri district. It 

 came under the Mahomedans, who fixed a secular Brahman, as their 

 manager. Various trifling revenue details follow : in defect of pay- 

 ment, this village was seized. 



Note. — The name of a village formed as above would be decisive evi- 

 dence of a Chola invasion, were there even no other. 



Section 6. Account of Dasari-palli, in the same district. 



In S. S. 1036, in the time of Pravuda-rayer, this country was first 

 cleared. The name arose from a class of people who subsisted by a 

 kind of handywork, the product of which they sold. No point of ob- 

 servation occurs down to the ascendancy of the Nabob of Cuddapa, and 

 the subsequent regulation of the country by Colonel Munro, while Col- 

 lector in the Ceded Districts. 



There follow, according to the index, twelve other sections, in all 

 eighteen ; which in the book occur without more than two or three di- 

 visions, relative to distinct " hundreds ;" the included villages being 

 only paragraphed. The whole has been carefully read over and exa- 

 mined : 1, because the locality is that of the Ceded Districts, not hereto 

 fore submitted to such close investigation as the districts of Telingana 

 proper ; 2, because there are many books having similar minute details; 

 and 3, because it has been found in looking over the village records of 

 Telingana, that, after two or three books have been read over, others of 



