IN THE CHICACOLE TALUQ. 
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Chicacole contains a large mosque built in A.D. 1641 by 
Shir Mohammad Khan, a sirdar of the Nizam, who resided at 
Kalingapatam, of materials from a Hindu temple, which he 
destroyed. This temple stood some 50 yards to the east of 
the present mosque, and was flanked by a tower at each of 
its four corners. The site of the temple and the foundations 
of the towers are still plainly visible. In the north-western 
corner of the mosque, as a foundation stone, is a portion 
of what was evidently a pillar of this temple. Upon it are 
three inscriptions, one imperfect through the breaking of 
the stone, the others entire and quite legible. They are 
in Sanskrit, in old Telugu characters, and have been trans- 
lated by the writer. 
In the bed of the Langulia river, below the bridge, is 
a projecting surface of rock quite covered with rudely-sculp- 
tured lingas. It is called the Kotilinga-rdyi, though said 
to be lacking one of the number necessary to make up the 
full crore, by the possession of which Chicacole would have 
become Kasi. 
On what was formerly the site of the old fort (now 
the Canadian Mission compound) are a number of stones 
" said," according to Sewell, " to have been removed hither 
from the Sri Kurmam temple." This opinion I regard as 
erroneous. The stones are evidently remains of a Hindu 
temple which once stood on the spot. Portions of the 
foundations of this temple have been unearthed within the 
compound, while a large part of it is still buried from view. 
The stones of this temple, which undoubtedly antedates the 
Mohammad an conquest of the country, have been used for 
various purposes. The temple of Korta Anjaneya-svdmi, 
which stands near, and is of modern construction, was built 
over an image taken from this spot. It seems probable that 
the remains of the old temple were first used in the 
construction of the fort, and afterwards, together with the 
materials of the fort itself, in the erection of the above-named 
