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plating the slaughter spread before him. M. Bussy received the sacred captives, the boy and the tutor, "with the humanity of a guardian appointed by the strongest claims of Nature, and ordered them to be strictly guarded in the camp from the malevolence of their enemies." It is also said that M. Bussy appointed the young Rajah lord of the territories (which, however, have not been named in any documents now available) which had previously been offered to his father in exchange for the districts of Bobbili. However, after the whole affair was over, his uncle Vengal Rao, who was wounded in the battle, regained by force of arms the estates of Kavitey and Rajam, and lived at Rajam a determined opponent to the authority of the Pusapatis and doing everything in his power to effect the recovery of the entire Zemindari of Bobbili, until his death in 1765. Chinna Ranga-Rao, as Venkata Ranga-Rao was called by the historians, also lived at this time at Rajam under his uncle's care.