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INSCRIPTIONS. 



After him the decline became more marked, till the princes 

 at Candragiri succumbed to the king of Golgonda. 



The present chief of the Narapati family is the Palegar of 

 Anegundi Narasimha Maya, a great-grandson of Tirumala 

 Raya, to whom from motives of humanity and policy and not as 

 a matter of right was granted a pension in 1801, which in 

 1807 was fixed at Es. 1,377-11-4 per mensem. 25 

 The following succession list will, on the whole, be correct : — 





A.D. 



Y. 



M. 



D. 



Vira Narasimha 



1488-1509 



21 



0 



0 



Krsna 



1509-1530 



20 



3 



8 



Acyuta 



1530-1542 



12 



6 



4 



Sadasiva, 26 in his name reigns 



1542-1564 



21 



1 



12 



Rama Raja. 











Tirumala, Rama's brother. . 



1564-1572 



8 



0 



0 



25 Ravenshaw gives in the Asiatic Researches, vol. xx, p. 19, the succes- 

 sors of Sri Rafiga Rao, hut his account is evidently not quite correct. These 

 successors are " Venkatapati, Rama Rao, Haridas (1693), Chak Das (his 

 brother) 1704, Chinna Das (1721), Rama Raya (1734), GopalRao, son of Chak 

 Das, Venkatapati (1741), Trimala Rao (1756), Vira Venkatapati Rama Raya, 

 31st May 1829." The Local Records, Vol. XL VII, pp. 66, 67, mention as 

 Srirangaraja's successors Venkatapati, Rama Raya, Tirumala, his son Rama 

 Raya, his son Gopala Raya, his son Vira Venkatapati Raya, Vehganayya, 

 Cinnaraya, Rama Raya, Cinnadasaraya, Hiredasaraya and Rama Raya. 



Ravenshaw says that Vira Venkatapati Rama Raya died a minor on the 

 31st May 1829, " and there being no heir, the jdgir, I understand, has lapsed 

 to the Nizam's Government, and the pension of 1,500 rupees' per mensem to 

 the Company." According to the Proceedings of the Madras Government, 

 Revenue Department, 19th November 1872, Tirumala Raya, the father of 

 Vira Venkatapati, died in 1824 and the latter died unmarried in 1831. At 

 the time of his death no male descendant of Tirumala Raya, it seems, existed, 

 but Tirumala Raya's elder son, who had died before his father, had'left a 

 daughter, and this daughter had a son Tirumala Devarayalu, who eventually 

 succeeded. His two sons Venkatarama Rayalu and Krsna Devarayalu 

 succeeded him respectively in 1866 and 1871. The latter died childless in 

 1872, and was succeeded by his cousin Narasimha Raya, the son of Laksml 

 Devamma, the sister of his father Tirumala Devarayalu. 



I am indebted for this information to the kindness of the Hon. D. F. 

 Carmichael, Senior Member of the Madras Council. 



26 In Campbell's list Sadasiva' s name is omitted, and Salka Timma Raya 

 mentioned as the immediate successor of Acyuta. He was the uncle, e.g., the 

 Salka (see p. 234), of the young prince and usurped for a time the throne. 



