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government to the frontier post of Penkonda, in 
violation of his treaty with Mohummed Kooli 
Ivootab Shah, and also made many aggressive incur- 
sions upon the Hydrabad possessions. In retaliation 
of these offences, the Hydrabad chief, having reduced 
Gondikotta, marched directly upon Penkonda, and 
laid siege to it. After the lapse of a few days, 
Yenkutputti sent an embassy to Mohummed Kooli 
Kootab Shah, for the purpose of negociating terms of 
peace : and an armistice, during the treaty, was an 
immediate result. The Hindoos, taking advantage 
of this cessation of hostilities, and the temporary 
absence of the Mohummedan troops from their lines, 
actively employed themselves in laying in supplies. 
In three days, they had procured stores sufficient for 
a prolonged siege ; and before the suspicions of their 
enemies were excited, they had gained a reinforce- 
ment of troops, under the celebrated Jugdue Rao, 
amounting to nearly twenty thousand men. When 
the king of Hydrabad was informed of these faith- 
less proceedings, he became greatly exasperated, and 
immediately renewed the siege with increased vigour. 
His utmost efforts were now, however, quite un- 
availing, and, as the monsoon approached, he feared 
to be cut off from his capital by the inundations of 
the Krishna ; he therefore raised the siege, planting 
strong garrisons in all the forts which he had reduced ; 
and, leaving a large force, as an army of observation, 
under the command of Mortaza Kahn, he withdrew 
to Hydrabad. 
